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School district borders have power. In almost every state, a substantial portion of districts’ funding is drawn from local property taxes. Under this system, school district borders serve a dual purpose. They define both the student population served by the district and the property tax base that supports it. The border therefore determines which kids have access to what educational resources. That sets off a vicious cycle: Greater property wealth in some districts supports higher school spending; families seek to live within the borders of districts with well-funded schools; and demand for those areas raises home prices, further boosting property tax receipts and school budgets in affluent areas. The result is that our school funding system works to divide communities by wealth, and school district borders entrench those disparities.

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Carving out a place for themselves: Black settlers’ pursuit of dream in late 1800s Nebraska

Not much remains in Custer County of the black homesteading families that lived here in the late 1800s. Their sod houses are gone, their descendants scattered.

These families were part of a wave of black settlers who came to Nebraska and other states after the Civil War, seeking lands offered by the government. They came here to start new lives, to claim land and work for themselves in a country that still didn’t know where they fit in. Within a generation or two they moved on, in search of better opportunities for their children.

The move to Nebraska came at a time when many former slaves were leaving the South after Reconstruction efforts ended and moving to the Great Plains to claim land offered by the federal Homestead Act of 1862, said Todd Guenther, a professor of western studies at Central Wyoming College.

Under the act, any citizen who had not taken up arms against the United States government, including freed slaves, was entitled to 160 acres of land in the Western U.S. Black settlers claimed land in at least eight Nebraska counties.

In Westerville, Speese and his brother Jeremiah Shores (slaves were often given the surname of the family that owned them, leaving many in former slave families with different surnames), each was able to claim his 160 acres, as were other black families.

Read their stories here: http://www.omaha.com/living/carving-out-a-place-for-themselves-black-settlers-pursuit-of/article_4658f6ec-eddf-11e5-842f-df85a963c447.html

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Hey girls, gays, and theys, how we doin in here? Nori and I noticed something weird outside and Sonic said he didn't know anything about it so I wanted to double check if we were seeing thi-

EXCUSE ME WHAT IN THE BROTHER DOPPELGANGER FUCK

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Oh! Hi Popcorn! This your girlfriend Nori? It's nice to meet you! Pop, Nori this is my Pa. Sonic the Hedgehog, hero of Mobius.

Nice to meet you ladies! Names Sonic but I've been told teenage me is around in this world so you can call me Frontier. Id introduce you to my husband but he's still in the hospital at the moment though something tells me you might know him.

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Jetblue presenta oferta para comprar Spirit Airlines

Jetblue presenta oferta para comprar Spirit Airlines

Jetblue ha presentado una oferta para comprar Spirit Airlines por 3.600 millones de dólares estadounidenses. Spirit Airlines es una aerolínea sencilla que, si bien ofrece vuelos baratos, tiene tarifas exageradas que en realidad hacen que sus vuelos cuesten casi tanto como los de una aerolínea superior como Delta. Spirit y Fronteir anunciaron que planeaban fusionarse en febrero, sin embargo,…

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Frontier y Spirit Airlines se fusionarán

Frontier y Spirit Airlines se fusionarán

Fronteir y Spirit Airlines, ambas aerolíneas económicas con sede en los EE. UU. que no ofrecen servicios e incluso cobran por el equipaje de mano, se fusionarán, anunciaron las dos compañías el lunes. Una vez que se complete la fusión, se convertirán en la quinta aerolínea más grande de los Estados Unidos. “Esta transacción se centra en la creación de un competidor agresivo con tarifas ultrabajas…

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#landscape #mountains #panorama #alaska the #fronteir of earth 🌎! (στην τοποθεσία Toklat, Alaska) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2zca66ovpW/?igshid=1e4v41ubl6u8n