On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 03:11:41PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> As already mentioned by other posters, education funding is mostly > handled at the local level. In a large number of places, it is > funded by property taxes. Especially during hard economic times, the > voters=homeowners do not want to vote to raise their property taxes.
And you think this situation could not be improved upon by adding any kind of Federal programs?
Probably not if the additional funds go to hire overpaid bureaucrats rather than additional teachers, as I described in the third (snipped) paragraph of that message.
-- Ronn! :)
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