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SFDF News & Information
| Sioux Falls/Minnehaha County named one of America's Best Places to Raise a Family | 07/08/2008 |
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Forbes' rankings are skewed toward counties with good school districts. Using research provided by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax research group based in Washington, D.C., Forbes started with a list of the nation's counties with populations over 65,000. To eliminate under-funded school districts, they isolated 97 counties where more than half of per-pupil spending comes from property taxes. Next, they removed all counties with average SAT scores under 1,050 or average ACT scores under 22, leaving 51 counties. They ranked the remaining counties using 10 data points: cost of living, graduation rate, standardized scores, home price, property tax rate as a percentage of median home price, percentage of homes occupied by owner, per-capita income, air quality, crime rate and commute time. For the complete story, visit" http://www.forbes.com/realestate/2008/06/27/schools-places-family-forbeslife-cz_zg_0630realestate.html |
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