{"id":4340,"date":"2011-06-08T06:52:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2011-06-09T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:21:46","slug":"morning-read-could-the-property-tax-cap-wreck-poor-north-country-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/08\/morning-read-could-the-property-tax-cap-wreck-poor-north-country-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Could the property tax cap wreck poor North Country schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4343\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/08\/morning-read-could-the-property-tax-cap-wreck-poor-north-country-schools\/marquiltaxes\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4343\" title=\"marquiltaxes\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/06\/marquiltaxes-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/06\/marquiltaxes-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/06\/marquiltaxes-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/06\/marquiltaxes-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/06\/marquiltaxes.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Momentum is growing for a property tax cap, but there&#8217;s a lot of pushback right now from local government and school leaders, who say they could be forced to slash programs and services.<\/p>\n<p>The Watertown Daily Times looks this morning at fears among educators that &#8220;poor, rural school districts, such as those in the north country,  are disproportionately affected by state aid cuts or a tax cap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our offerings would need to be significantly altered just to get by,&#8221;  said Joseph J. Eberle, business administrator for the South Jefferson  Central School District. &#8220;The haves will be successful and productive  and the have-nots will not. I think that&#8217;s an atrocity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Full speed ahead on a tax cap?\u00a0 Or do these warnings give you pause?\u00a0 Comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Momentum is growing for a property tax cap, but there&#8217;s a lot of pushback right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,6,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4341,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}