How can anyone with an ounce of business sense; in good conscience, insert this district into their document comparing financials with Westonka district? Anoka-Hennepin school district, has more high schools then Westonka has schools. Their web site claims more than 40,000 students. 40,000 students vs. approximately 2250.....yet, their district has just 4 homes assessed at $1,250,000+ compared to 306 in the district with approximately 2250 students. At $750,000+, it's Anoka-Hennepin 57, Westonka 1067. So which district is going to see homeowners assessed at $300,000, getting squeezed hardest??
I created a factor for comparing homes assessed at $300k across multiple districts!! You divide the school tax load of a $300k home, by the number of students in a district, to find out how efficient a district is at using it's money. Anoka-Hennepin's efficiency factor comes to $.04 or $1479 / 40,000. Westonka's comes to $.32 or $717 / 2250. So who is paying more?????
I was going to perform this little analysis for all 21 districts in Kevin & Yes' bar chart, but after the first 5, is it really necessary?
** Property numbers for this comparison come from NorthstarMLS' tax file and are those deemed "Residential" under their plat prop type code.
This is like comparing IBM to Radio Shack. Don't they teach critical thinking in Teacher's College, Kevin?
ReplyDeleteNo, Kevin was not taught critical thinking. All he was taught was to say that he needs more money for learning environments.
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