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President Donald Trump isn't dead, but a Gloucester PTO parent is apparently planning ahead.
A Halloween party Friday evening at West Parish Elementary School in the famous fishing city included a faux tombstone for "Don Trump."
BOSTON — An exhaustive state study exploring the state's problems meeting regional school district funding needs suggests enacting a pilot program to test whether a uniform tax rate spread out across member towns — in which the regional districts are granted with "independent taxation authority."
The 68-page report, the product of a study conducted by Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump, acknowledges the hurdle known as Proposition 2 ½, the state law barring municipalities from raising local property tax levies beyond 2.5 percent plus allowances for new growth. Bump's office suggests, however, that the Legislature should "empower the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to work with a willing district."