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Property taxes paying for schools is a remnant of redlining. More affluent districts with nicer houses end up with more funding per student, and “bad” areas where minorities live because of literal centuries of economic disadvantage continue to get shafted.

I think we should ditch property taxes and replace them with much higher state-level progressive taxes that are distributed so that every public school student gets the a good education.

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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
the problem is that every state that has done that has shit education system now. and the states that have the best public education are the ones who are most reliable on local property taxes…

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- tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  bad school districts often pay more per kid than good districts
  
  Do you have a source on that?
  
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HetareKing@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Most countries don’t do the absurd funding the local public school using the district’s property taxes thing, but they still have property taxes.

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bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The correct way of using property taxes is to not split them by tiny zones.

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Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Oklahoma has state taxes guess what it isn’t helping anyone most definitely the poor. Not sure what they do with those funds but it doesn’t go to roads or helping schools.

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