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<blockquote> <p>I would like to see schools that are much more successful than others, redistribute outside money including money raised by PTAS to schools that have more need. We have elementary schools of about 230 students raising over $200,000 but we have other schools who don't have enough textbooks.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Nice sentiment, but it would probably only last through one season of fund raising, and all those people who are working so hard will just disappear. We've been through several rounds of equity funding court cases, and the issue is still being hashed out in the courts. the only halfway workable solution cited so far is to redirect all state money to underfunded districts, they originally wanted to do the equivalent of what you are proposing - wealthy districts turn in some of their local earmarked tax money to the state, and the state redistributes it to poorer districts. Then that changed to for wealthy districts a formula would be applied, and when local funding got over a certain amount state funding would be diverted, that proposal is being litigated now.</p>
<p>If it passes, the wealthy districts will probably fold and the cities will sell the properties for pennies on the dollar to newly organized private schools, and repeal all the local taxes. That will have the added "benefit" of throwing the students that DMD77 is discussing (some are big financial drains) onto the county school system. It doesn't affect our schools as much, we are unique in the state in that there is only 1 huge school system for the entire county. The majority of the "movers and shakers", except for local politicians, opted out to private schools many years ago, first, as I said, to escape desegregation, then, in the 80s more to escape chronic underfunding because much of the system's potential capital money was tied up in the longest running deseg case of all (nothing but minimal maintenance was done on the schools for 25 years).</p>