This is an area I have a good deal of ambivalence about.  On the one hand, I would like to see per student spending equalized across all school districts (except perhaps high cost areas should get more).  However, the only ways I can imagine to accomplish this involve the state even more heavily than now, and I am reluctant to reduce local control.  On the other hand, sometimes local control does not produce good results and some thing has to be done.
 
I know I would like to see the property tax not be the method of financing schools (or anything else, for that matter).  I wonder about a progressive local income tax.  How much legislation and/or constitutional amendments would that require?
 
I would also like to see an end to the requirement that school districts have to get approval for levy increases.  No other governing body in the state has that requirement that I am aware of.
 
Glen Schumann
Winona, MN
 
 
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