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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
And we're not going to improve K-12 education because the communities where 90% of it is paid for by property taxes are never going to vote for a system which uses solely state or federal money instead, even if you tell them their property taxes will go down as a result (because they like their better schools).
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The idea that we are still funding K-12 public school education with mostly property taxes is beyond ridiculous.
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