How about removing public schools from the residential property tax altogether? Public schools are governed by the state, anyway. For example, teacher certification, curriculum, teacher retirement funding and payouts, etc, Why not make teachers state employees and pay them salaries and benefits as the state pays its employees through its human resource department? This would stop teacher job shopping and the endless whining about one school district paying more than another' You need to fund public schools in a manner not based on how many rooms a house has or what neighborhood the house is in. Apartment renters have no business voting to raise the taxes of their landlord.
How about removing public schools from the residential property tax altogether? Public schools are governed by the state, anyway. For example, teacher certification, curriculum, teacher retirement funding and payouts, etc, Why not make teachers state employees and pay them salaries and benefits as the state pays its employees through its human resource department? This would stop teacher job shopping and the endless whining about one school district paying more than another' You need to fund public schools in a manner not based on how many rooms a house has or what neighborhood the house is in. Apartment renters have no business voting to raise the taxes of their landlord.
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