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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sort of thing happened where I grew up.  The County provided very little money to schools.  Parents in our town petitioned the County to give more funding to all County schools, but the County refused.  So the town formed its own breakaway school district.  I was too young to care about all the logistical details, but I think it meant the town could impose additional taxes on town residents to raise more money beyond what the County supplied.  Town residents still paid their State & County taxes, and thus supported schools all over the State and County, just like everyone else.  But they could just raise additional money for local schools via taxes.

I suspect that approach can lead to wealthy kids getting more education dollars than the less well off, but on the other hand, they're paying for it.  [/quote]

Local taxes are not apportioned wrt to ward. They never will be. DC is not a state, therefore has no counties, therefore has little control over such matters; see also, gun laws. Our overlords would never allow this. [/quote]

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