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thaumasiotes
6 months ago
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U.S. math scores drop on major international test
As the other replies say, you don't get to stop paying taxes, but the local school does get to stop receiving them.
scruple
6 months ago
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Thank you. So, the funding chases the student, somehow?
dmurray
6 months ago
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The school gets paid for the number of students it has on its books. It's not difficult to imagine how this can "somehow" work operationally.
thaumasiotes
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But if, theoretically, there were a way to count students, and also a hypothetical way to count money, someone might draw a correspondence between them?
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