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- From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
- Subject: Re: California Public Schools Funding: A Materplan for Failure
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.103002.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 10:30:02 PST
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- In article <n0eddt@ofa123.fidonet.org>, Mark.Perew@p201.f208.n103.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- > In a message of <Nov 16 09:02>, jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
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- > > Prop 13 showed clearly that California taxpayers
- > >would rather have lower property taxes than good schools.
-
- > The astute reader will notice the implication that more money equates to
- > better schools. An implication which is totally unsupportable, BTW.
-
- Totally? That would indicate that it's always false. From my
- research on the topic, putting money into a school doesn't
- necessarily make it better, but taking money out almost always
- makes it worse. Incidentally, comparing funding levels at private
- and public schools won't give any useful information since most
- private schools require a level of parental participation which
- public schools are not capable of demanding.
-
- -dh
-