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Het is een beetje jammer dat het gelijk weer over gaat in Trump-bashen en over schoolshootings gaat.
Terwijl de problemen in het onderwijs (schoolshootings heb ik het dan even niet over) inderdaad al vele decennia aan de gang zijn.
Een groot probleem is de financiering van de openbare scholen, dat is grotendeels door de opbrengsten van onroerendgoed belasting in het "school district"
https://www.npr.org/2016/(...)have-a-money-problemquote:
That $9,794 is how much money the Chicago Ridge School District in Illinois spent per child in 2013 (the number has been adjusted by Education Week to account for regional cost differences). It's well below that year's national average of $11,841.
Ridge's two elementary campuses and one middle school sit along Chicago's southern edge. Roughly two-thirds of its students come from low-income families, and a third are learning English as a second language.
Here, one nurse commutes between three schools, and the two elementary schools share an art teacher and a music teacher. They spend the first half of the year at different schools, then, come January, box up their supplies and swap classrooms.
"We don't have a lot of the extra things that other districts may have, simply because we can't afford them," says Ridge Superintendent Kevin Russell.
One of those other districts sits less than an hour north, in Chicago's affluent suburbs, nestled into a warren of corporate offices: Rondout School, the only campus in Rondout District 72.
It has 22 teachers and 145 students, and spent $28,639 on each one of them.
What does that look like?
Class sizes in Rondout are small, and every student has an individualized learning plan. Nearly all teachers have a decade of experience and earn, on average, more than $90,000. Kids have at least one daily break for "mindful movement," and lunch is cooked on-site, including a daily vegetarian option.
Why does Rondout have so much and Ridge so little?
Over the past six months, NPR Ed and 20 of our member station partners set out to explore this basic question.
The simple answer is that many of Rondout's neighbors are successful businesses. They pay local taxes, and those taxes help pay for local schools. Ridge simply has less to work with — fewer businesses, lower property values.
More broadly: "You've got highly segregated rich and poor towns," says Bruce Baker of Rutgers University, who studies how states pay for their public schools. "[They] raise vastly different amounts of local revenue based on their local bases, and [Illinois] really doesn't put much effort into counterbalancing that."
To be fair, Illinois gives more money to Ridge than it does to Rondout. It's just not nearly enough to level the playing field.
https://www.theatlantic.c(...)qual-schools/497333/quote:
The discrepancies occur largely because public school districts in Connecticut, and in much of America, are run by local cities and towns and are funded by local property taxes. High-poverty areas like Bridgeport and New Britain have lower home values and collect less taxes, and so can’t raise as much money as a place like Darien or Greenwich, where homes are worth millions of dollars.
Het is zelfs zo dat de keuze in welk "school district" je huis staat belangrijk is voor potentiele huizenkopers, dit kun je zelfs selecteren op makelaars en huizenzoeksite`s
https://www.realtor.com/n(...)ted-realtor-com-app/https://www.century21.com/schools