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customerserviceguy

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8. And rural school districts do have a tough time

Reply to amandabeech (Reply #7)

Mon Aug 4, 2014, 07:19 AM

Aug 2014

There's often very little manufacturing base in those places, and a high proportion of the service jobs are in government. Agricultural, open space, and timber property tax exemptions also mean that there's very little money to support school districts.

My former sister-in-law was a teacher in one of those school districts, I got to hear a lot of things from her side.

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