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

[Alan Rudy]

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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