To: Javelina
It was in action during the 1950s at least (Gilmer-Aiken passed in 1947). The rich districts put some of their money in a pool to fund the poorer districts. The Permian Basin schools funded lots of others. Much of the school system money came from a tax on oil and gas.
45 posted on
02/04/2003 11:37:45 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Every minute a man dies and one and one-sixteenth is born.)
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