Everyone should read this again--few can say it better.

>until the neighborhoods desegregate, the schools
>won't.
>the neighborhoods won't desegregate unless more
>minorites obtain higher paying jobs
>
>the schools won't get better unless
>the property taxes that pay
>for them increase.
>the property values won't increase unless
>the people owning the property
>start making a little more
>money

The only problem is, people who make money don't tend to come back to the old neighborhood. Either they move to a ritzier place, or they gentrify the hell out of where they live. And poor people are always going to be forced to live together, so as long as we're on a property tax system those people will be fucked.

Which is why we need to get off the property tax system--it's one of the most discrimiatory things we have left. Moving to a system of state taxation and distribution of funds, under current civil rights laws, would neccessitate that poor districts get the same amount of money as rich districts. And there actually is a good chance of doing so. Michigan moved to a state-level income and sales tax to fund schools in 1994, and polls in most states show people don't care if some of the school tax burden is shifted to the state level

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