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You lose a head at your school, you lose funding for that head. Some heads are more expensive to educate, like special education students, but the state gives you the same amount for each head. So as a school, you might want to keep the cheaper to educate heads and get rid of the more expensive to educate heads.

That tracks and makes a lot of sense, based on conversations I've had. Thanks.

As the other replies say, you don't get to stop paying taxes, but the local school does get to stop receiving them.

Thank you. So, the funding chases the student, somehow?

The school gets paid for the number of students it has on its books. It's not difficult to imagine how this can "somehow" work operationally.

But if, theoretically, there were a way to count students, and also a hypothetical way to count money, someone might draw a correspondence between them?

funding for public schools in California and most other places is based on number of students in attendance