It’s long past time for some substantive tax relief for Pennsylvania homeowners.
Pennsylvania homeowners, get ready. This year’s school property tax bill is about to hit your mailbox. And, once again, it most likely includes yet another increase in your property tax -- compliments of our GOP-run General Assembly’s failure to adequately fund our schools or take any action to provide for meaningful property tax relief.
According to my local school district’s 2022-23 budget documents, the level of state funding support for our school district has shrunk to a dismal 28 percent, with the remaining bulk of the funding to make ends meet coming from the pockets of local property taxpayers. No wonder our state ranks in the bottom 10 states in America in terms of state versus local funding support for our schools.
But, unfortunately, in yet another public trust-busting demonstration of inaction, it appears this constitutional “will of the people” has either been just forgotten or ignored. Our state lawmakers have failed to provide our school districts and other local taxing bodies with the funding or funding mechanism to even begin to implement this constitutional change.
What’s more, as the details of the state budget are finalized, it’s long past time for the state to fund its fair share of unfunded and underfunded mandates like cyber charter schools. It is ridiculous that our state’s school districts are required to pay the full cost of students attending non-district cyber charter schools while many other states provide the funding for the cyber charter school alternative.
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