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   From: bshatzerNO@comcast.net   
      
   lein wrote:   
      
   > Bill Shatzer wrote:   
      
   >>boomer_the_cat@my-deja.com wrote:   
      
   >>>Bill Shatzer wrote:   
      
   -snip-   
      
   >>Portland employment increased 2.2% in 2005 - more than San Francisco,   
   >>Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, New York and Minneapolis, among other   
   >>cities.   
      
   > So there shouldn't be a crisis with PPS, right?  Afterall, the city   
   > added 2.2% more jobs and hasn't seen an increase in enrollment.   
      
   Jobs do not benefit the schools - directly or otherwise.   
      
   School funding is provided by property taxes which are unrelated to jobs   
   and which are capped in any event and by state funding which is   
   distributed in accordance with legislative appropriations and the state   
   formula which likewise are unaffected by any growth or lack thereof in jobs.   
      
   Indeed, with Oregon's silly "kicker law", more jobs don't even result in   
   more income tax revenues which might be distributed to the schools under   
   an increased appropriation and/or revised state formula.   
      
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