| Thomas Jefferson labored for 18 years before Public Schools became
a reality in the United States. The Public Libraries of Ben Franklin and
Public Schools meant easy communication between the people of the United
States and we began to lead the world in new inventions and technologies.
Inventors and well educated workers for a strong economy.
During the Civil War, homesteading procedures, and Land Grant School
funding, were introduced. The laws in the South against teaching slaves,
and the fear of losing their liberties and the very lives of their loved
ones in war, made the people want to wipe out ignorance. All the states
joining the union since the Civil War, have direct Land Grant School funding.
The National Grange was formed
to inventory resoureces and provide rural schools. Additional Land Grant
Universities were introduced a generation later to address the children
those former slaves.
Public Schools are the reason for the industrial revolution. The inventiveness
and adaptability of the general population of the United States, is because
every local community has a public school. Basically; Land Grant in the
west ( all the revenue from some of the land ), and a separate School Property
Tax in the east ( some of the revenue from all of the land ). Either way,
the schools are assured of funding, forever.
Alaska can return to Land Grant resource funding for schools, and reduce
local property taxes. A lawsuit to return the school funding, just like
the mental health lands lawsuit, is the first step. |
