Voters approve additional public education funding in several states
Several states and one city were asked to consider ballot measures that would better fund public education.
CASEY QUINLAN
NOV 7, 2018, 9:42 AM
Voters across the country on Tuesday made ballot decisions to help fund public schools, which are increasingly starved for resources. Most of them were successful, with six education initiatives passing overall, in places like Seattle, Washington; Georgia; Maryland; Montana; and two in the state of Maine.
Four education initiatives were defeated in Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Utah.
Education funding has dropped drastically in recent years. Twenty-nine states were providing less total school funding per student in 2015 than in 2008, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. In 19 states, local government funding also fell. In more than half of the states in the United States, the poorest districts — districts with the highest rates of poverty — get $1,000 less per pupil in state and local funding than districts with the lowest poverty rates, according to The Education Trust.
The fact that education initiatives were on the ballot at all in several states, then, is at least a step in the right direction.
https://thinkprogress.org/voters-approve-increased-public-education-funding-states-210b33a18f17/
Colorado, why? You have tech companies along the front range making millions, and now your property taxes will go up..............I mean come on .......................really.................