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Abdul El-Sayed: “Right now we fund school buildings based on property tax.”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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Published | Video Starts at 48:51

I also think that the way that we have funded local education, specifically school buildings, has too often ported the historical racism of the past. Right now we fund school buildings based on property tax. Property tax is a function of property value. Property value is a function of who's been able to live where as a function of redlining from the past. (48:51–48:55)

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Asserts that school buildings are currently funded through property tax.

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