Issue Position: School Funding

Issue Position

The national recession forced governments to cut spending on education at an alarming rate. Nothing is more important than our children. Albany must take a bigger role in school funding. For local property taxes to account for over 82% of education funding means that the state expects local property taxpayers to fund such taxes. Property taxes should not be above a certain percentage of a family's total income. A maximum rate, or circuit breaker is needed to protect young, working and fixed income families so they can afford to live here. Funding education is not discretionary but mandatory for our future.

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