	"Total tax collections in the U.S. are expected to be $2,667,000,000,000 in 1998. This represents 35.4% of the country's total income. In comparison, medieval serfs paid an effective tax rate of 33.3 percent." (Source: Just Facts)

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1999

School district	Index	Rank	ERG
GLASTONBURY	88	5	B
S.WINDSOR	82.7	66	B
ANDOVER	83	59	C
BOLTON	86	24	C
ELLINGTON	85.3	32	C
HEBRON	86	27	C
RHAM	87.1	12	C
SOMERS	82.6	68	C
SUFFIELD	85.2	34	C
WILLINGTON	80.4	94	C
TOLLAND	81.8	72	D
WINDSOR	71.6	138	D
COVENTRY	74.4	125	E
ENFIELD	79.2	100	F
MANCHESTER	72.5	132	F
VERNON	77.9	108	F
WINDSOR LOCKS	79.2	101	F
E.WINDSOR	71	140	G
STAFFORD	80.8	88	G
E.HARTFORD	70.5	141	H
HARTFORD	41.1	164	I

STATE	73.7
EH-GBY MAGNET	70.2
METROPOLITAN LEARNING CENTER	67.3
ODYSSEY SCHOOL	68

Unlike the way these stats are published in the paper, we publish them sorted by Educational Reference Group, which is a grouping designed to make districts comparable. Here, they are. Yet notice that ERGs E, H, I provide only one entry (so they are comparable with nothing), G and D (Windsor's ERG) only provide two entries (allowing only limited comparisons).

In reference to this table, notice...

Our scores are below the state average.
They are below the other member of our ERG shown by nearly 10 points.
They are below all of the members of B,C,E,F; only one member of G is lower (by 0.6), H is lower by 1.6.
Magnet and special schools are performing even worse than we are. They are no panacea for the problems of public education.
Higher spending districts do not show performance commensurate with their spending. The implication is that there is no correlation between per-pupil expenditure and performance.