[lbo-talk] Joanne Barkin: Poverty and US International School Rankings

[Wojtek S]

[WS:} MD passed the Thornton law in 2002 that mandates state funding of
schools in poor districts
http://www.newrules.org/equity/rules/equity-school-finance/equity-school-finance-maryland
<http://www.newrules.org/equity/rules/equity-school-finance/equity-school-finance-maryland>and
it did not lead top any electoral defeats.  In fact, Governor O'Malley won
the second term chiefly because his opponent Ehrlich (a despicable piece of
republican shit) was campaigning on cutting education spending.

Having said that - the current financial crisis will likely lead to cuts in
state spending on education.  The predominantly black PG county is already
talking about education spending and job cuts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020105384.html

Wojtek

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:


> Shows what I know... apparently, in 1973, the US Supreme Court refused to
> treat equal protection as applicable to education but explicitly encouraged
> states to adjudicate that issue... and many have determined that
> over-reliance on local property taxes is unconstitutional at the state
> level.  Here's a decent history of/for NJ:
> http://crab.rutgers.edu/~ccoe/courses/soe/Powerpoints/*SchoolFunding*.ppt
> I know that CA, MI, OH, TX and other states have (and continue) to struggle
> with this... and have absolutely no idea how NY does it.
> Mea culpa,
> APR
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >  Alpine has K-8, and it looks like those little kids are pampered.
> >>
> >
> > Oh yeah.  Alpine must be one of the top 10 richest towns in the country.
> > It's full of mansions, like Eddie Murphy's.  The reason they don't have a
> > high school because that will keep out the riff-raff who can't afford
> > private school.  Although Alpiners that want their kids to have a common
> > touch send them to Tenafly.
> >
> > Englewood Cliffs has a similar set-up, and a similar origin: a rich part
> of
> > town that seceded from Englewood.
> >
> > Michael
> >
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