Connecticut doesn’t really have much in the way of County Government, so a LOT of the school financing comes from state taxes. The governor plans to slash the school funding outside of the urban blight areas (Hartford/New Haven/Bridgeport/Waterbury, etc.) to ZERO, forcing a crisis on towns that have good management/governance and reasonable taxes (for CT).
“The governor plans to slash the school funding outside of the urban blight areas (Hartford/New Haven/Bridgeport/Waterbury, etc.) to ZERO, forcing a crisis on towns that have good management/governance and reasonable taxes (for CT).”
Correct. I live in one of those towns. Our schools are actually first-rate. To maintain this standard we are bracing for the double digit percentage increase in already very high property taxes. People will leave.
The old from each according to their ability to each according to their need.
Worked well for Venezuela.
My understanding is that these idiots are talking about putting both education and pension expenses on towns that “can afford it”. What happens when people want out of those towns and no one wants to purchase their homes? Won’t lower property values decrease property tax revenue? CT is already losing relatively wealthy retirees and others who have had it.