Cutting Property Tax?

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Deval Patrick wants to cut the property tax. Wouldn't that impact school funding, since that's where the money comes from? Can anybody cite sources in how that would work?

( if this is too off-topic, I apologize )

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[mrf-arch.livejournal.com]

Healey supports raising the cap on the number of charter schools in the state, and in one of the 4-way debates, stated "Let's make them all charter schools" regarding Massachusetts public schools. Charter schools tend to have less regulation, more authority vested in the school administration, and weaker teachers unions than public schools.

The teachers' union is counting (rightly, I think) that whatever modifications to the state's tax system Patrick makes, anything that results in a net cut to school budgets across the board will get him wiped off the map next election, and that he knows it. So there's not much risk to teachers in that direction. Whereas, between pushing charter schools and pushing a merit-based pay system for teachers that would circumvent union seniority pay rules, Kerry Healey has all but declared war on the Massachusetts Teachers Association.

[kickindancer.livejournal.com]

Yep.

Charter schools are NOT the way to go.

[ron_newman]

I'm voting for Patrick, but at the same time I support more experimentation in our school system. Why shouldn't we have more charters?