The Legislature and governor
remain without a deal on
using the state budget surplus
for property tax relief.
So how disappointed were you
and other superintendents
when the Assembly adjourned
without hatching this plan?
We were really disappointed
and in part
because they adjourned
the session in the second
or third week of February.
We talked about that
with some of our students that
that would be similar
to us ending the school year
after Homecoming.
But there's so much
of this year left
that the Legislature
and the governor
could be working together
to solve these
longstanding problems
not only using
the state surplus that exists
now to solve
property tax relief
and school district finance
in the short term
but also sitting down
and doing the serious work
of trying to address
long-term concerns about the
state school finance formula.