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Act 60 Redux
Can Vermont's school-funding law, Act 60, be fixed and should it? Gov. Howard Dean believes that the new law has been successful in providing the equality of educational opportunity that the Vermont Supreme Court said was required under the state constitution. However, despite its successes, Act 60 has not won the acceptance that Dean and others had hoped it would.
Tags: Act 60; school funding; school-funding law; Vermont's school funding system
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Metro Detroit schools, towns lose millions on pre=fabs
Due to a loophole in property tax law, metro Detroit schools and government services lose at least $17 million a year because manufactured homes in housing parks are charged just $36 a year. This rate has been frozen since 1956. Since prefab homes will make up as much as half of all new homes in Michigan the next few years, the loophole could end up strangling suburban school funding.
Tags: taxes; loopholes; education; schools; property taxes; tax assessment