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."
"Political correctness" is no longer about being respectful towards others. It has taken a very dangerous turn … and become weaponized by people declaring they are "anti-fascism" while embodying the very fascism they are protesting.
