Public Schools and the Property Tax: A Comparison of Education Funding Models in Three U.S. States | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

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This article is excerpted from a forthcoming Lincoln Institute Policy Focus Report, Rethinking the Property Tax–School Funding Dilemma, and from a Lincoln Institute working paper, “Effects of Reducing the Role of the Local Property Tax in Funding K–12 Education.” T he massive shutdown of K–12 schools sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic has no precedent in U.S. history. By the end of the 2019–2020 school year, at least 50.8 million public school students had been affected by school closures (Education Week 2020). Although schools closed during the 1918 influenza pandemic, fewer children attended school then and schools were not as integral to daily life (Sawchuk 2020). This time, almost overnight, the national education system shifted dramatically. Teachers were required to adapt lessons to virtual meeting platforms. The forced rapid transition to online methods led to learning loss or unfinished learning for many students. The pandemic exacerbated existing disparities and created new chal

Public Schools and the Property Tax: A Comparison of Education Funding Models in Three U.S. States | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy In this Section Land Lines Magazine Current Issue All Issues All Articles Land Lines en español Appears in Land Lines, April 2022 PDF | Free | 11 pages Download PDF Also Available in Spanish Public Schools and the Property Tax: A Comparison of Education Funding Models in Three U.S. States By Daphne Kenyon , Bethany Paquin , and Semida Munteanu , April 12, 2022 SHARE This article is excerpted from a forthcoming Lincoln Institute Policy Focus Report, Rethinking th

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