Why America's Schools Have a Money Problem

by ParentCo. April 19, 2016

How much money a school can spend on its students still depends, in large part, on local property taxes. And many states aren't doing much to level the field for poor kids.
Source: How School Funding's Reliance On Property Taxes Fails Children : NPR


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