Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses − draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students
- Written by Christine Wen, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Exxon Mobil Corp.'s campus in East Baton Rouge Parish, left, received millions in tax abatements to the detriment of local schools, right.Barry Lewis/Getty Images, Tjean314/WikimediaBuilt in 1910, James Elementary is a three-story brick school in Kansas City, Missouri’s historic Northeast neighborhood, with a bright blue front door framed by...







