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DEL.ICIO.USWhy we’ll need a House appropriations subcommittee on sousaphones
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Up in Athens today, House Speaker Glenn Richardson will make a sales pitch to Georgia’s district school superintendents — on his proposal to end property taxes in the state.
It will be a hostile crowd. Spitballs are expected. Already this morning, state School Superintendent Kathy Cox expressed skepticism in an interview with political talk radio host Tim Bryant of WGAU (1340AM).
Here’s the sound clip. And here’s the meat of what she said:
“We’re analyzing that and looking at the impact it could potentially have on revenue for schools, and what it could do in terms of local discretion and programming.
“I think there is some real, legitimate concern that taking away that ability of local folks to raise revenue could really hurt things. Like, for instance, music programs and things that are heavily locally funded. There would really need to be a shift in terms of who pays for things like the band and the chorus and all of that.
“Also, even in elementary school the state only pays for an art, music or P.E. teacher currently. If you have all three at your local elementary school, that’s local dollars….So there’s quite a bit of ramification of taking away the locals’ ability to tax themselves.”
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By Victor Jones
October 17, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this
thanks, i didn’t know this:
“Also, even in elementary school the state only pays for an art, music or P.E. teacher currently. If you have all three at your local elementary school, that’s local dollars….”
no wonder we had so many horizontally challenged kids and adults blowing on kazoos instead of humming along with and face painting the school board members down here in backward Bbib, never never land.