SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE Editorial: Faced with an obsolete school financing system that relies too heavily on local property taxation, state lawmakers seem to have reached a bipartisan consensus to make it worse.
The state House recently voted overwhelmingly to reject the only property tax reform that makes any sense – a bill that would have eliminated the school property tax in favor of state funding derived from increased statewide sales and income taxes.
That bill would have more fairly spread the tax burden while more fairly distributing resources to ensure that all Pennsylvania schoolchildren have comparable access to good teachers, facilities and overall educational opportunities… (more)
