State law requires certain school districts (known as Chapter 41 districts) to send local property tax dollars to the state through a process called recapture. Because the state has been paying less and less of the cost of education, it increasingly relies on recapture dollars to pay for public education across Texas.

How does Texas fund public education?

Local Funding. Local funding for Texas public schools is generated primarily by an M&O property tax levied on local taxable values. Each school district adopts a certain M&O tax rate per $100 of taxable property valuation. … It did this by establishing a compressed tax rate (CTR) for each district.

Who argued for a Robin Hood plan for the poor?

Simon Kuznets argued that one major factor behind levels of economic inequality is the stage of economic development of a country.