{"id":73106,"date":"2026-07-21T06:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=73106"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:56:44","slug":"so-why-are-we-still-paying-property-tax-60-of-all-local-property-tax-is-for-public-education-and-shrinking-student-populations-causing-spike-in-public-school-closures-across-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=73106","title":{"rendered":"So why are we still paying property tax&#8211;60% of all local property tax is for public education and shrinking student populations causing spike in public school closures across U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2026\/07\/20\/school-closures-rising-across-us-pools-students-funds-shrink\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2026\/07\/20\/school-closures-rising-across-us-pools-students-funds-shrink\/<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73107,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73106\/revisions\/73107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}