Sentences with phrase «local property tax dollars»

The $ 1.5 M Land Bank subsidy provided through local property tax dollars was not intended to be permanent.

Many — especially school choice activists and Parent Power advocates fighting Pennsylvania's Zip Code Education laws — can rightfully argue that the state should take over full funding of education and the reliance on local property tax dollars.

Charter schools, though public, only get money from the state, meaning they do not receive local property tax dollars.

Proponents built their position around an explanation about the relationship between local property tax dollars and per pupil state funding.

That's because, unlike their wealthier counterparts, they have a harder time making up the difference with local property tax dollars.

They insisted that local property tax dollars should not follow students to a state charter school; those dollars should remain with the traditional school district.

Last spring opponents in the General Assembly insisted no local property tax dollars should be allowed to fund new state - approved charter schools.