Thread by @torrHL

“in the US, schools tend to rely a lot on local property tax revenue — with around one-third of their funding coming from local property taxes, although there’s a lot of variation from state to state, according to a 2017 report”

lincolninst.edu/sites/default/…

“This goes back to the colonial days, when US education began as a local responsibility.”

“The reliance on these taxes can produce big disparities, because some places are going to be poorer and, as a result, produce less property tax revenue for their schools.”

“State and federal governments can try to balance the scales between rich and poor districts by giving poorer schools more money, and some states try, but it’s often not enough to make up the whole difference,”

2016:

npr.org/2016/04/18/474…