Cori Bush: It's not a slogan. It's a mandate for keeping our people alive. Defund the police.

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78. It is amazing.

My sister-in-law works as a sub in NJ. (My former home.) There are also some amazing disparities in the quality of schools there. NJ is kind of unique. Under "home rule," there are about 610 school districts in the state, some tiny and wealthy, some enormous and diverse -- or poor, depending on the area incorporated.

There are a number of wealthy townships that were carved out of larger, more diverse townships for the sole purpose of being able to set up their own schools, policing, etc. For example, wealthy Metuchen was formed smack dab in the middle of Edison. (See this map. The red bit is Edison. The grey bit in the middle is Metuchen. The other borders shown within Middlesex county are other townships. The little "enclaves" you see scattered around are generally very wealthy areas that formed their own townships.) It is pretty awful. The larger townships lose a lucrative tax base, and the little wealthy townships can afford top notch schools for their wealthy kids with no worries about the "rabble" from neighboring townships.