School Property Taxes
2/8/20
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from TPPF,
2/7/20:
What to Know: As a helpful Dallas Morning News explainer shows, Texas schools are funded primarily through property taxes—a system that seems to satisfy no one.
The TPPF Take: There are better ways to support public schools than property taxes.
“A reliance on local property taxes to fund education has been at the heart of its constitutional challenges for the better part of four decades,” says TPPF’s Austin Griesinger. “For example, the Legislature could buy down school maintenance and operations (M&O) property taxes over approximately a decade. This could be done by restricting state spending growth and using the resulting budget surpluses for the buy-down.”
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