Property taxes and school funding in CA...

I went out and did a bunch of reading tonight on Basic Aid, and the changes that went into place with LCFF in 2013-14.  Pretty interesting stuff. 

http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_913MWR.pdf

Here's an explanation of why Basic Aid and how LCFF changes that (for the districts that are receiving greater than their allocation through property taxes, very little changes, since they were already so far over - 40% of CA's basic aid districts are in the Bay Area, and many of those districts also level additional parcel taxes in addition to normal property taxes to fund education.)

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