And where was Anonymous when we needed help dealing with Trump ? Assholes ! Edit I see why they didn ' t help . Guess they fell for the false equivalency too . <| sep |> Oregon . It ' s been changed somewhat since then . For a century all schools were funded entirely by local property taxes , then as federal mandates became increasingly expensive and a rather stupid innumerate , impossible statewide pension plan looked like bankrupting the districts the state began to pick up the slack . When I left it was still paid for by property taxes plus a state subsidy but they had just passed a law pushed by parents in the Portland school district that set a limit on what any district could spend per pupil if about $ 3700 . Thus was a bit less than the district I was in was spending , a big more than others . It was , overall , a rather stupid and extreme attempt to force Portland schools to get reasonable . But the transition rules that were put in place by the state dept of education exempted Portland on a sliding basis , decreasing over several years , because cutting from over $ 9000 to under $ 4000 was so difficult . I left the state for unrelated reasons soon after so I don ' t know how if all panned out .