Public School Vs. Public Schools

Property tax is the “most common,” “most dependable and stable income base,” for schools. Property tax can be a complicated process and there are difficulties for taxpayers because assessments can be overvalued or undervalued. A property may be worth less and yet the property tax may be higher than the assessed value of that property. This over and under valuing can be frustrating to a taxpayer that lives in a home that they can’t sell for the million dollars that their home’s property tax is assessed at and yet they are paying property taxes for a million dollar home. I would think that in areas where there is less property to be taxed, there would be less income coming in to those school districts, making it less equitable. It could be vastly different from one area to another.

Property taxes are taxes charged to people who owned property. Literacy tests are tests to determine your level of education, however, its main use was to prevent African Americans from voting. In Source 4, it states “Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three page 30 question document” (Tarter, Brent). He was talking about literacy tests, it shows that people who took the literacy test did not have enough time to complete 3 pages with 30 problems in ten minutes. Source 4 also states “The test here from Louisiana consists of questions so ambitious that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer to most of them” (Jones. John). This mean that this was an obstacle for African Americans because Whites could rig, or tamper, the test since there was no right or wrong answer. In addition, in Source 3, it states “In the South one hundred years ago, many states allowed only property owners to vote. Many blacks and whites has no property and could not vote” (www.abhmuseum.org). This was another obstacle African Americans had to face because they did not own any property, since they used to be slaves. Since they did not own any property, they could not vote. Passing tests, such as the literacy and property test, was an obstacle African Americans had to

     The government does not fully provide funding for each school district since public schools are funded through property taxes (“Public”, 1). Therefore, the amount of money for

Public schools relied on property taxes for funding. Because of this, city schools, now largely segregated, started to

With the many diverse characteristics of the Unites States, perhaps the most troubling is the rising gap in the distribution of wealth. As the wealth gap in the United States rises exponentially, the gap in the quality of public schooling rises with it. For a country that prides itself in prestigious outlets of education, the system of public schooling seems to be miserably failing. Public education, a system that some fight to destroy while others fight to preserve, is perhaps the only source of academic opportunity for many individuals living in this country. The fact that someone can live in a certain area and receive a higher quality of public education than someone else living in a different area in the same country—even in the same state—is a problem that should not trouble a ‘progressive’ democratic society. Unfortunately, areas of lower socioeconomic status receive much less funding than areas of higher socioeconomic status, where property taxes account for 45% of funding in public school districts. Naturally, the impoverished residents of poor neighborhoods pay a harsh price in this situation, sending their children to an underfunded school with little to no resources, where sometimes teachers must supply the classroom from their own pocket. As Rogerson and Fernandez note, “a system that allows the accidents of geography and birth to determine the quality of education received by an individual is inimical to the idea of equal opportunity in the marketplace”

Most people believe that students do better in well-funded schools and that public education should provide a level playing field for children. Nearly half of the funding for public schools in the United States, however, is provided through local taxes, generating large differences in funding between wealthy and impoverished communities (National Center for Education Statistics, 2000a). Efforts to reduce these disparities have provoked controversy and resistance. Public school funding the United States comes from federal, state, and local sources, but because nearly half of those funds come from local property taxes, the system generates large funding differences between wealthy and impoverished communities. Such differences exist among states, among school districts within each state, and even among schools within specific districts.

Taxes are not made for private school, so why are vouchers making it seem that way? Kahlenburg says that “voucher opponents are right to worry that vouchers will ‘drain… resources from the public sector’” (“The Voucher Wars”), because they are taking that money and putting it towards private schools. While more money has been spent on vouchers in private schools, public schools have been facing cuts and class sizes are getting bigger. Even though tax payers pay for both public and private schools, there is a political limit on how much is payed for by the tax payers. This means that no one school will get more than the other. Parents that pay tuition are supported by tax-payers while students in the voucher system do not have to pay the tuition. This leads to an increase in government funding in private schools. In some public schools, cuts are so severe that electives such as music, art, and physical education are cut from some schools (Miner). Core subjects have increased in class size and, in some cases, there are more students that there are desks in the classroom (Miner). Private schools have also taken money from public schools being able to have smaller classes more challenging curriculum, and better training for teachers. In Indianapolis, it is questioned if Holcomb will continue to take money from Indiana public schools and support “the nation’s largest and least-restrictive voucher program”

want to keep property tax for public education funding. In my point of view, usually the schools

The majority of the funding for Colorado K-12 public schools is through state revenues and local property taxes. Local property taxes have been decreasing in recent years and are projected to

Taxes is when the state takes a percentage of the money you make to help the community or the state. Also one reason we get taxed is to pay off the government workers. Another reason we get taxed is to pay for the public buildings and public roads we use like libraries, schools, and highways. Finally another reason we get taxed is to help the poor or less unfortunate also to help an organization.

The state’s tax system is in part used to add taxes to almost everything you buy, which ultimately helps support the public school systems in the state. Alabama is currently ranked 48th in per-student funding. Strangely, it also ranks in the top in the percentage of educational funds that come from inside the state. Even though the state has such a large amount of funds coming from inside state lines to help the schools, it’s not helping. This is where the state’s tax system comes into play. The property tax system is greatly under funded, which is causing the state revenue to provide insufficient funds to help provide a proper school system in lower income areas. For example, in some rural areas in Alabama, local contribution to the school can range from $302 per student to as high as $5,175 per student in the wealthier suburban areas like

Taxes are the dollars that we pay to government to supply the services that are not or can not be provided through the free enterprise system. Taxes have been around since the beginning of organized societies. They come in various forms. Most common are income taxes both federal and local government. These taxes are assessed on the amount of income a person earns. Other taxes come in the form of user taxes; these taxes are imposed on the people that are using the goods being taxed, such as gas tax, alcohol tax, sales tax, and luxury taxes. Property taxes make up the major revenues for local and city governments. Furthering the burden of taxation are taxes that are attached to such bills as utility

Thesis: Private school students are more likely to have a better viewpoint in learning, a firm stance in education, and will be more successful in colleges than of public school students.

Schools have a number of various sources. The primary sources are federal, state, and local funding. The majority of funding comes from state and local sources; whereas a small percent (usually 9-12%) comes from the federal level. The method by which schools receive funding is through the taxation process. At the state level, taxes are levied from taxpayers, both corporate and citizens via sales and income tax. At the local level, school funding comes from property taxes. Let’s explore the how the various sources of school funding. “According to the National Center for Education Statistics, state and local funding accounts for approximately 93 percent of education expenditures” (Woodruff, 2008, ¶ 2). Let’s examine these various sources of revenue and funding and different formulas for allocation along with their pros and cons.

Currently the education system in the United States is funded mostly on a state and local level, who always borne over 90% of the public elementary and secondary education finances (need cite). The original Department of Education was developed in 1867 to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the States establish effective school systems (need cite). Fast forward over one hundred years to 1980, when Congress established the Department of Education as a Cabinet level agency, and note that education standards and improvement continue to be of great importance to the government. It is important to note that the state and federal government play separate roles in the education of students, whereas the federal government has the means to