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Byline: Andrea Vanryken The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), on behalf of the Brown County Taxpayers Association, filed a brief with the Wisconsin Supreme Court in light of [...]

From a very early age, we have been taught that every cause has an effect. If we do A, then B will occur. However, what we have not been taught [...]

From The Las Vegas Sun: A survey shows that a little more than half of Clark County, Nev., voters would support a tax hike by Clark County School District to [...]

From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Taxpayers in DeKalb County, Ga., have been paying for a top-heavy school system that could stand to shed more than 300 administrators, according to an outside [...]

From The Philadelphia Inquirer: The Spring-Ford Area (Pa.) School District will have to pay pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline $6.5 million in tax reimbursements over the next three years under an agreement [...]

From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Voters in the East Greenwich (N.J.) Township school district have turned down a $25.5 million proposal that would have raised taxes to expand two schools. District [...]

From*aThe Cleveland Plain Dealer: A*aCuyahoga County, Ohio,*aAuditor's office error*ahas cost*aNorth Olmsted*acity schools $310,000 in property taxes over the past two years. Residents in 62 houses in the Bretton Ridge subdivision [...]

From The Los Angeles Times: A long-shot parcel tax that would have offset some of the looming funding cuts in the Los Angeles Unified School DistrictA was falling well short [...]

FromA The San Francisco Chronicle: Voters in theA Alameda (Calif.)A school district have begun a monthlong, mail-only election to decide whether taxes will be raised to support public schools.A Measure [...]

From The Plattsburgh Press-Republican: Taxpayers in the Westport (N.Y.) school district have turned down a school bond that sought up to $500,000 for a backup generator, new security entrance and […]

DALLAS - The Texas Permanent School Fund bond guarantee program will again be available to back debt issued by school districts starting next year, the Texas Education Agency announced. The [...]

From The Detroit Free Press: The finance committee of the embattled Detroit school board is asking the state Treasury Department to investigate exactly how much money the city owes the […]

From The Indianapolis Star: Voters in the Hamilton (Ind.) Southeastern school district have approved a property tax increase that administrators say is needed to avoid cutting teachers and educational programs. […]

From The Portland Oregonian: The city councils in Tigard and Tualatin, Ore., will ask voters to create a special tax district that would provide funds to operate two swimming pools […]

Voters in two-thirds of the Round Rock (Texas) district will decide on May 10 whether to join Austin Community College's taxing jurisdiction. If annexation is approved, all of the Round […]

Voters approved funding referendums for three Hamilton County school districts on May 2. Carmel Clay Schools and the Sheridan Community School Corp. had proposed seven-year tax hikes for operational funding, [...]

Just weeks after the New York Legislature budgeted a record $900 million in new aid for the state's 671 school districts that are not part of cities, the districts have […]

Taxpayers in the Houston school district should have an easier time finding out where their tax money is spent. The school system has become the latest to post their checkbooks […]

A loophole in Arizona law allowed the residents in the community of Troon to form their own studentless school district and thus avoid paying taxes to the districts their children […]

A procedural ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court is expected to speed up a handful of challenges to tax abatements granted for Easton Oval and nearby developments in recent years. [...]

New York's 650 school districts will be facing $420 million in new expenses in 2011 despite exerting efforts to abolish sports, cut electives, increase class sizes, and lay off 14,800 teachers. In an attempt to help offset a projected $1.1 billion state aid decrease and escalating pension costs, schools have called for $583 million in new property taxes for 2011.

The approval of a law in Washington that allowed state funding of online schools could cost tax payers more. Tax payers who live in school districts that enroll online students could be levied with higher taxes by their districts to cover extra enrollment.

Despite recommendations from LI planning groups that merging all three of Suffolk's Board Of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) districts could save taxpayers from $3-M to $79-M, the state's education commissioner [...]

John A. (Jack) Lombardi may be leaving the elected office he has occupied since Kennedy was president and gas prices ere measured in cents. But the departing North Castle town [...]

Suffolk County, NY, executive Robert Gaffney has proposed a single countywide school district to decrease school costs and property taxes. However, his proposal is expected to be rejected by residents who want to retain control over school spending in their districts. Gaffney also plans to apply an income tax in lieu of the property taxes used to pay school costs., Bob Gaffney must be nuts. Either that, or he believes he's so far in front that nothing can cost him re-election. Or maybe the incumbent Republican Suffolk County executive has [...]

Despite better-than-predicted state aid, (of a threatened $73-M in aid cuts to LI schools, most was restored) and some attempt at cost cutting in other areas, school district taxpayers are [...]