![]() ![]() "In the wealthiest districts, this is frequently enough to operate an adequate school system," writes Kozol. ![]() Local taxes on the value of homes and businesses in the district form the base of per-student funding. Kozol described the vast funding disparities between rich and poor school districts in America, due to the way public education is primarily (or initially) funded by local real estate taxes. Jonathan Kozol wrote Savage Inequalities twenty years ago, but obviously its lessons haven't taken hold. If convicted, she could face 20 years in prison. In Connecticut in April, Tanya McDowell, a homeless single mother from Bridgeport, is being charged with larceny and conspiracy for enrolling her 5-year old son in Norwalk schools, fraudulently using a friend's address. They demanded she pay $30,000 in back tuition, for four years of schooling. "Those dollars need to stay home with our students," said officials with the Copley-Fairlawn district, which went to the trouble and expense of hiring a private investigator to film the mother driving her children into the district. "School officials said she was cheating because her daughters received a quality education without paying taxes to fund it," said an ABC article. In Ohio in January, Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced to 10 days in county jail and three years probation for enrolling her children in the Copley-Fairlawn School District rather than Akron, where she lived. ![]() ![]() Two cases of mothers lying about where they reside in order to get their young children into better school districts have made news recently. ![]()
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