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To: TigerPaw who wrote (35073)	9/6/2000 3:56:10 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

A real problem in federal spending for schools is that for every dollar the federal government sends to a schools district to educate the poor, the local district cuts back two dollars in local funding. California problems can be directly traced to laws capping property taxes while school populations increase. The real problem came from California's multi-billion dollar deficits that caused then Gov. Wilson to enact billions in new taxes, slash spending and then grab $3 billion in property taxes from local governments. This sleight of hand was accomplished by shifting the local property taxes from cities, counties and special districts to school districts and then reducing state aid to the schools by the same amount. The ERAF (Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund) accounts for the $4 billion surplus. This was supposed to be emergency shift but is still clinging to life and surpluses are available for schools. Voters have rejected bond issues because schools are failing to deliver through mis-guided bi-lingual programs, Whole language, and Outcome-Based Education experiments on entire school populations. Schools decayed because they misspent tax dollars on faulty progressive schemes and did not budget properly for infrastructure.