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A 5 page research paper/essay that discusses the issue of whether or not states should provide full state funding for public schools. This examination looks at this concept as a means for equalizing funding and concludes that broadened. but not necessarily full, state funding would serve this purpose, while helping school districts to retain some control. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the public school system has been an area of governance that has been left almost entirely within the auspices of each state. Consequently, there is considerable variance from state-to-state in
the way that the public education is financed. Some states put the burden of financing education almost entirely on each local school district, while others employ grants and various other
strategies so as not to overburden local counties and some utilize "equalization programs of varying degree of complexity" (Brimley and Garfield 64). Due to the variances in this system, some
school system in the US are properly funded, while others languish with inadequate facilities. The following examination of full state funding for public school systems looks at this concept as
a means for equalizing funding and concludes that broadened. but not necessarily full, state funding would serve this purpose, while helping school districts to retain some control. The variances
between the way in which school districts are financed are numerous and complicated, but, for the sake of argument, consider just one aspect of the current system, which is the
way in which real property is assessed as a means of obtaining local revenue for public education. In district A, a taxpayers property (worth $100,000) is assessed at 100 percent
of its real market value. Therefore, this taxpayer pays $2,000 in taxes or 2 percent of the propertys real value (Brimley and Garfield 73). However, at the other end of
this spectrum, in district E, on the same real property value of $100,000, the property is assessed at only 0.4 percent of its real value, which means that this property
owner only pays $400 (Brimley and Garfield 73). As this shows, in many states, "politically appointed assessors" are not "able to assess all similar parcels of property at the same
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