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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do they know NW parents don’t vote for equal funding?? My kid goes to a dcps with a well funded PTA, and I would vote in additional funds for all of dcps in a second. The pta shaming is just a version of blaming “white women” for everything. [/quote]

This is a little weird.  I have a lot of admiration for the NYT editorial board, but their assertion here way oversimplifies the issue and the facts.  [/quote]

I've lived in D.C. for decades, and I've never seen a ballot for or against equal funding in D.C. schools.  On this point, the NYT op-ed is based on a non-existent fact.  It's like the blank piece in Scrabble:  you can make a lot of impressive words with one of those!  (but it's not a real word)[/quote]

It is especially odd when you realize that a vote for literal equal funding would benefit the named schools and hurt others. So the article completely missed the point. There is a point to be made about PTA funding, but the way the article tries to frame is so factually incorrect that they miss the opportunity to actually address some real problems.[/quote]

+1.  Yes how ironic.  Live EOTP and not WOTP BTW.  Equal funding would actually help WOTP schools more.  EOTP title 1 schools get much more money than WOTP from title 1 money, head start money up to this year, free meals, free ECE, etc...

I don’t grudge PTA’s that raise money for the school.  It’s the parents money, not the city’s money.

People should realize that almost everywhere in the country, many of the things that WOTP PTA funds pay for is paid by the school district from the high taxes they collect from million dollar plus houses.  In DC, WOTP schools get much less covered compared to their equivalent neighbirs in VA and MD.

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Every other school district in the US gets money from local property taxes and state taxes and federal taxes.

The feds shortchange DC.

And, because MD and VA suburbs have many people who work in DC but don't pay taxes there, the lack of federal coordination on taxes shortchanges DC.

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