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Jason

You and I agree on the issue of the Repricans and money for schools. However, a major reason that the Rs get away with this is that we ALL have created a school system that is divided into two classes .. charity schools and affluent schools. Seattle parents with $$ can send their kids to private school or move to a District where there is more parental control.

The result?

Funds for public schools have sunk in priorioty to the level of funds for charities. Look at Goldy! His daughter goes to mercer Island schools. That fact obviously decreases the urgency of his interest in how the SPS work as well his credibility on that issue.

As I said before, it is impossible to disentangle school policy from the funding issues;. When the SPS announces it is going t divert funds to make Cleveland into an alternative school so as t attract white kids while NOT supporting successful programs at Garfield and Roosevelt, guess how many voters WANT to dish up money?

BTW, the UW is slowly headed won the same canyon as the SPS. WA state, along with California, is destroying its elite colleges because of a confluence of anti-elite libruls and anti-tax repricans.