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Trouble is, all funding is then controlled by the state.
Michigan did that, some years ago. Now, every new tax Lansing wants to levy is sold as "for the schools", but they always play a shell game and withdraw money from other sources, when the sucker voters approve the new tax. Then the freed up money is used to cover another "JC" tax cut. Michigan ranks 28th in per pupil spending. The (L&Ses) just did another shell game: exempted motor fuel from the 6% sales tax, but increased the motor fuel tax by an equal amount "for road maintenance" (another hot issue in this state). To replace the lost sales tax revenue, they levied a new 24% tax on weed, tagged "for the schools".(note another steep, flat rate, tax, that would take the same amount from a millionaire as it would from a burger flipper)
Or, your town could simply forget about the concept of "free public education". I have commented before, about what I found in the Farmington high school class catalog: every class has a fee, of $10 or more, per semester, except football, which is free. Your town could simply charge as much tuition as it needs for nigh school: $1000/semester. $2000/semester, whatever is needed. Then, when parents cry they don't have that kind of money, channel the GOP, and tell them to either go farther in debt, or drop their spawn out of school, so they can "learn the dignity of work".
Steve
