"Ed Huntress" wrote:

Here in NJ, funding, except for state support for poorer districts, is in
the hands of local municipalities, who fund schools almost completely by
means of property taxes. The main result is that it causes open political
war between parents of school-age kids and retirees.


Same here. School funding via property taxes, no matter what level education policy is
set at is, totally wrong.

Probably worked fine when we were an agrarian society.


Wes