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Bernie Sanders is Right: We Should Federalize Public School Funding | gadflyonthewallblog

Bernie Sanders is Right: We Should Federalize Public School Funding | gadflyonthewallblog:

Bernie Sanders is Right: We Should Federalize Public School Funding

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Bernie Sanders just dropped a massive dose of truth on us Monday night.
No politician in my lifetime has ever said anything so dangerous, fraught with problems, unlikely, impractical, and absolutely on the nose right!
The Presidential candidate running for the Democratic nomination wants to make the federal government largely responsible for funding public schools. Right now districts are supported mostly by local and state taxes.
This is what he said:
“One of the things that I have always believed is that, in terms of education, we have to break our dependency on the property tax, because what happens is the wealthiest suburbs can in fact have great schools but poor, inner-city schools cannot. So I think we need equality in terms of how we fund education, and to make sure the federal government plays an active role to make sure that those schools who need it the most get the funds that they 
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