October 17, 2006
Review: School levy pushes up tax bill
Review: School levy pushes up tax bill (Star Tribune, 10/17/2006)
This article focuses on the Citizens League annual property tax review. Citizens League Director of Policy Development Bob DeBoer is quoted extensively, including:
The major driver, of course, was the newly approved school levy, said Bob DeBoer, the league's senior program associate, who says schools statewide were the primary recipients of tax hikes in the 202 communities it surveyed in 2005 and 2006."The state share of K-12 funding has gone down," DeBoer said.
He noted, however, that the league chooses not to weigh in on two questions -- "Are we spending enough? Are school districts being efficient?" -- that he says often arise.