[Tim24596]

The question,'Why do poor districts have underfunded schools?' is easily answered in Illinois. We fund schools from property taxes. So, where the property is more valuablethere is more money for the schools. High value industrial areas in Chicago suburbs have better schools than agricultural counties in Western and Southern Illinois because property taxes support them. A more equitable solution to school funding would be from income tax that is more evenly distributed around the state but the collar counties have the clout and don't want to give up anything. So poor schools stay poor and the students do to.

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Name : Tim24596, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Religion : Methodist, Age : 50, City : Springfield, State : IL Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, 

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