He Has It Right
The Governor’s recent education proposal is right on track. The problem has always been, “How do you increase the state’s portion of educational funding, with out damaging the funding already in place?”
A “dollar-for-dollar” switch, that’s how. Simple, yet effective. We are looking at a 50 mill drop in property taxes. That’s a GREAT start.
I do think, however, that we need to “extend the track” a little.
Under present law there is nothing to stop the school districts in 2 years, from simply increasing their budgets, and again place the school levy at the top of the heap. With a 50 mill decrease in a school district that is at the max levy of 185, what is to stop them from revisiting that 50 mills in the next budget cycle, eating up our tax cut? NOTHING!
Therefore to obtain a permanent fix, we must decrease the mill levy authority of school districts in concert with this funding attempt.
The 70-30 goal is achievable, but it must remain there. And decreasing the mill levy authority is the only way of making sure that happens, permanently.
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