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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kvkkc1 who wrote (47154)	10/16/2000 5:00:13 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

In fact, they're not. If anything, the average NYC school is still better than that in other urban areas, with certain exceptions, such as East Rochester, where only some 12 percent passed the latest regents test. To blame the Democrats is convenient but totally false. A great deal of money is provided by state aid, under a formula that actually gives more aid per capita to areas such as NYC and suburban Long Island (where most of the political power is). Upstate school districts get short changed and the exam results can be explained in part by the comparative lack of funding. Meanwhile, the property tax remains the major funding source for NY public schools--a tax that favors schools in high income suburban communities. The Supreme Court has begun to take notice of these inequalities in states such as New Hampshire, and whatever happens there may offer a clue to where education is going. But for now, the key problems affecting public education are not addressed by Bush, and are not solved by vouchers.