Public schools in California are facing major budget cuts due to the recession, resulting in layoffs of teachers, increased class sizes, cuts to after school programs, and potential school closures. School districts and advocacy groups are suing the state, arguing that the cuts violate the constitutional requirement to provide an adequate education. School districts are asking voters to approve tax increases to offset the losses, but many taxpayers oppose further taxes in the struggling economy. The quality of education in California is declining as budget cuts continue.
2-7-17 Presentation to the Cities of San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente regarding:
1) Impaction in our public schools as a result of the Ranch Development
2) Asbestos in our Public Schools - Grand Jury Recommendations- Districts Response
3) The State's Effect on CUSD's ability to provide a minimum education to its students.
Fundraising for core educational programsDawn Urbanek
The Capistrano Unified School District has eliminated state mandated core educational programs due to a lack of adequate funding from the State of California and is relying on fundraising and donations to provide art and music for students. Those schools that cannot rise sufficient funds through donations have no art or music programs. Relying on fundraising and donations to provide state mandated minimum curriculum violates the equal protections laws of the United States and California. Presentation to the CUSD Board of Trustees January 27, 2016 to restore district funded visual and performing arts or to declare fiscal insolvency.
The Teachers Unions’ Fight for Universal PreschoolJames Dellinger
This summer, Congress will
consider reauthorization of the 2002 No
Child Left Behind Act, the Bush
Administration’s centerpiece education
legislation. This time around, Sen. Edward
Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep.
George Miller (D- California) are in the
driver’s seat. What kind of spoils will they
give their teachers union allies—perhaps
funding for “universal preschool”?
Jared Polis Foundation Education Report Spring 2003Lisa Finkelstein
From 2002-2008, the Jared Polis Foundation (JPF) Education Report reached out to Colorado households, organizations and government entities semi-annually highlighting educational reform, advances and local educational issues.
The foundation decided to end the program in the fall 2008.
2-7-17 Presentation to the Cities of San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente regarding:
1) Impaction in our public schools as a result of the Ranch Development
2) Asbestos in our Public Schools - Grand Jury Recommendations- Districts Response
3) The State's Effect on CUSD's ability to provide a minimum education to its students.
Fundraising for core educational programsDawn Urbanek
The Capistrano Unified School District has eliminated state mandated core educational programs due to a lack of adequate funding from the State of California and is relying on fundraising and donations to provide art and music for students. Those schools that cannot rise sufficient funds through donations have no art or music programs. Relying on fundraising and donations to provide state mandated minimum curriculum violates the equal protections laws of the United States and California. Presentation to the CUSD Board of Trustees January 27, 2016 to restore district funded visual and performing arts or to declare fiscal insolvency.
The Teachers Unions’ Fight for Universal PreschoolJames Dellinger
This summer, Congress will
consider reauthorization of the 2002 No
Child Left Behind Act, the Bush
Administration’s centerpiece education
legislation. This time around, Sen. Edward
Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep.
George Miller (D- California) are in the
driver’s seat. What kind of spoils will they
give their teachers union allies—perhaps
funding for “universal preschool”?
Jared Polis Foundation Education Report Spring 2003Lisa Finkelstein
From 2002-2008, the Jared Polis Foundation (JPF) Education Report reached out to Colorado households, organizations and government entities semi-annually highlighting educational reform, advances and local educational issues.
The foundation decided to end the program in the fall 2008.
A Reflection of Minimally Adequate Education In South Carolina More Than Fift...dbpublications
This academic professional reflection is
primarily focused on inadequate funding of
public education in selected school districts
in the State of South Carolina, USA. It
examines, in summary, several Supreme
Court cases from a historical prospective
and its present day implications. The
research based reflection focuses on the
inequality of minimum adequate education
and funding in public education. The
analysis of Supreme Court cases shall
demonstrate how inadequate funding of
public education impacts the lives of
innocent children. The reader will find
themselves questioning the educational and
financial disparities within the arena of
public education and resting upon multiple
conclusions of personal thought or may
embrace the author’s points of view.
A Reflection of Minimally Adequate Education In South Carolina More Than Fift...dbpublications
This academic professional reflection is
primarily focused on inadequate funding of
public education in selected school districts
in the State of South Carolina, USA. It
examines, in summary, several Supreme
Court cases from a historical prospective
and its present day implications. The
research based reflection focuses on the
inequality of minimum adequate education
and funding in public education. The
analysis of Supreme Court cases shall
demonstrate how inadequate funding of
public education impacts the lives of
innocent children. The reader will find
themselves questioning the educational and
financial disparities within the arena of
public education and resting upon multiple
conclusions of personal thought or may
embrace the author’s points of view.
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Roderick Hooks
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2/6/2020
Inequality in American Schools
Puritans of Massachusetts established the first public school and decided that these schools will get funds from property-tax receipts. Initially, the system of using property tax to fund local school was performing equally. In her article, XXX argues that education is unequal in the United States because students from poor district perform at levels several grades below those from the richer district. This is because of inequality in the money supplies to schools to fund public schools. Public schools are financed by different states depending on their contribution to tax collection. Most of the poor districts contribute low property tax because properties are less valued and only poor people stay in those districts. Because of this, public utilities such as schools lack adequate resources to support learning. The standard measure for economic hardship does not present the magnitude of the learning gap between poorest and richest students. The federal government and education sector in the United States needs to formulate policies that support the implementation of equal acts.
Public education became mandatory at the end of the 19th century and the responsibility for educating students was given to states rather than the national government. States gave more money for schools, even for schools that relied on property tax. However, regional disparities that arose due to increased urbanization lead to inequalities in schools. Areas with less valued properties or poor families had less money available for schools. As a result, schools in poor districts had fewer resources to support education. In the early 20th century, states started to provide grants to all districts to ensure equitable funding. Nonetheless, wealthier districts increased property values making the state subsidies to increased, hence, causing more education disparities. Advocates and activists have filed claims to push for equality in the American education system. Most of these efforts failed due to opposition in the Congress, the audience for this essay is to inform the federal government and local government that poor districts where most of the disadvantages students come from need more money to finance their education.
States should design a formula that will allow districts to share revenues for education to be more equitable. My argument is that states should give poor district enough money for disadvantaged students to have the ability to perform as wealthier students. Students in wealthier district have access to school psychologists, personal laptops, up-to-date exercise books, and counsellors. High-poverty areas do not access these resources. These areas have more students who need extra help, yet they have fewer tutors, guidance counsellors, and psychologists (Semuels, p1). They also have poorly paid teachers, bigger classes size, and poor facilities. This situation is experie ...
Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut's legislative majority are on a collision course over education funding in the upcoming state budget. Lamont's proposed $26.1 billion plan for the fiscal year ahead has stirred controversy by reducing funding for public colleges and universities.
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EDITORIAL College Free for AllAs the Democratic and Republi.docxSALU18
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s the Democratic and Republican conventions loom on the horizon, higher education has not been a widely or deeply discussed issue. This is unfortunate. The economic security of the American people requires that each generation be educated to confront the social, environmental and technological challenges of our time and to appreciate the arts and literature, which nourish the personal and national soul.
This calls for greater access to a college or university education. U.S. leaders once hoped that by 2025, 60 percent of the population would be college-educated. So far it is closer to 30 percent. The curse of inequality continues to isolate the ruling elite from the common public. The average male high school dropout might earn $24,000 a year. One with a fouryear college degree might make $52,000, while an advanced degree could merit $67,000. On a salary of $62,000 a family might enjoy a comfortable lifestyle; but the average college graduate moves into public life overburdened by college debts.
A college education today is not a luxury; for many careers it is a personal necessity as well as a social good. Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed that the government should guarantee tuition for every student in a public university, which is 75 percent of the student population. This would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street. Hillary Clinton’s plan would spend $350 million in states that increase their funding, tighten rules on for-profit colleges, have students work for 10 hours a week and allow families to pay according to their income. Her plan would also offer some help to private colleges with high numbers of needy students. Jeb Bush offered the student a $50,000 line of credit to be repaid through federal income taxes over 25 years. Marco Rubio would “fundamentally overhaul higher ed” and supports night school and online degree programs.
A variety of theories explain the rising college costs at public institutions as a recent phenomenon. Critics blame luxurious dormitories and athletic centers and high-salaried administrators and professors. In many cases state legislators have lowered funding year by year, forcing public universities to raise tuition. High tuition can also be falsely perceived as a sign of quality, leading wealthier students to enroll and middle-class strivers to sacrifice and follow.
Proponents of free tuition, at least for the lower middle class, point to Germany, Finland, Norway and Sweden, all of which offer a free college education. It is “free” because fewer students attend college in these countries than in the United States and because citizens are willing to pay much higher income taxes. In the United States, with 50 different state educational systems, California’s public colleges were free until 50 years ago; and Tennessee, Oregon and the city of Chicago have recently provided or will soon provide free tuition for two-year colleges.
Whatever its limitations, the Sanders prog ...
Teacher Stipend, Early Childhood Education Cut in Louisiana Budget ProposalFuture Education Magazine
The recent decision by the House Appropriations Committee to slash public school teacher pay and reduce early childhood education opportunities has sparked debates over priorities in education funding and overall state spending.
Struggling with Increased Costs and Open Seats, Duval Schools Weigh New Closi...Future Education Magazine
Strained by budget overruns, Duval County school officials are contemplating the closure of dozens of schools whose futures seemed secure after voters greenlit a half-penny sales tax for building improvements in 2020.
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t’s an article of faith for higher education poli-
cymakers across the country: while tuition at
four-year colleges is increasing at a dizzying
pace, community colleges offer an affordable
alternative for millions of students.
According to a new report, however, graduating
from a community college — the only affordable avenue
available for millions of
underprivileged and
minority students seeking
a college education — is
becoming out of reach for
growing numbers of stu-
dents as tuition increases
continue to outpace the
rise in family income.
Many states, mean-
while, are reducing higher
education spending as
they struggle to close
yawning budget deficits,
threatening community
college access, especially
for those students who tra-
ditionally have relied on
the 2-year institutions,
according to a report
issued by the National Center for Public Policy and
Higher Education.
“Many students are not able to keep pace with rising
tuition, because family earnings have lost ground over
C O V E R S T O R Y
A Graduating
Report: Costlier Colleges Threaten Access
BY PAUL BRADLEY
Thousands of community college students donned caps and gowns and graduated this spring.
But a new report suggests that the escalating cost of attending community college is limiting access
for students who most rely on the institutions.
“If current
trends
continue,
more students
will be priced
out of higher
education
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the past decade,” the report said. “Median
family income, adjusted for inflation,
declined in the United States over the past
decade. At the same time, tuition at two-
and four-year colleges increased at a rate
faster than inflation or family income, and
student financial assistance did not keep
pace, exacerbating the college affordability
and college completion problems.”
“Concerns about college affordability
have most likely been driving many stu-
dents to community colleges. If current
trends continue, more students will be
priced out of higher education altogether,”
the report said.
The report found that tuition rates at
community colleges rose faster than family
income in every state except Maine since
1999. In California, home of the nation’s
largest community college system, the cost
of attending community college increased
77 percent between 1999 and 2009, while
median family income increased just 5 per-
cent, the report said.
Patrick Callan, founder and executive
director of the California-based center, said
the report documents a trend that has been
under way for 30 years. Over that time, the
cost of college has increased even faster
than the cost of health care, and much more
than inflation or family income.
Galloping Increases
The economic downturn has only
worsened the situation and undermines the
country’s goal of producing more college
graduates.
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This presentation covers recent state & county budget developments as well as strategies of unified advocacy groups Fairfax FLAGS, FACE, Full-day K & CPES -- all interested in preserving the world-class quality of FCPS and its many valuable programs.
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Although charter public schools have now existed for 25 years, they are still widely misunderstood. This presentation explores 12 myths relating to charter public schools and K-12 education.
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Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
1. Facts Sheet
Riverside cuts school busing, even to Related Articles:
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10:00 PM PDT on Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Recent News - School District Budget Cuts
By DAYNA STRAEHLEY
The Press-Enterprise
For many due to budget cuts, school is out for
summer, literally
Seventh- and eighth-graders' homes in Victoria Grove and
Lake Mathews are 11 miles from their "neighborhood" Inland school cutbacks may cause struggling
school in Riverside's Woodcrest area, and this year there's students to slip through cracks
no bus to get them there.
School budget cuts threaten gains
The Riverside Unified School District cut all middle school
and high school busing in March, saving $750,000 as the EDUCATION: California's school funding system
district closed a budget gap of more than $44 million. Last broken, speakers say
year's revenue from the state was down more than 18
percent, Deputy Superintendent Mike Fine said.
For the entire article, click here
Budget cuts postpone traditional start of LAUSD
school year
Students face closure of alternative schools
because of L.A. County budget cuts
Lawsuit aims to overhaul school
School librarians read writing on the wall: Jobs
funding system, provide schools are disappearing as the budget crisis deepens
with more dollars
May 20, 2010
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Education funding must be increased by billions of dollars
to meet legal requirements under the California School budget cuts keep Snohomish County
Constitution, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. kids off buses
The litigation, filed by the California School Boards Assn.,
School budget cut by $1 million
nine school districts and students and parents, arrives as
school districts are struggling from successive years of Budget cuts may close high schools
steep budget cuts brought on by a sputtering economy and
lawmakers’ reluctance to raise taxes. Frankford chops $20,034 from school budget
-- Howard Blume
California Teachers: Paying for School Supplies
For the entire article, click here — and More
Major cuts: High schools face hard economic
lessons
2. State faces new budget shortfall, new
tax ideas
March 16, 2009|By Matthew Yi, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
"I think we're in a period in time where everything's on the
table. We're going to be $8 billion down before the ink
dries on the current budget," said Assemblyman Curren
Price, D-Inglewood (Los Angeles County)...
"Education should be our prime priority," Price said. "We
frequently are shipping funds away from education. My
proposal is one way of ... trying to insulate education funds
from those kinds of cuts."...
Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Murietta (Riverside
County), who became the Senate minority leader last
month after a coup during the marathon budget session,
said passing any more taxes or fees "would add insult to
injury to California taxpayers."...
For the entire article, click here
New tax increase today - and the
voters did it
June 17, 2009 |
South Pasadenans say "tax me." In the latest in a string of
mail-only votes in relatively well-to-do school districts in
the Los Angeles area, voters in South Pas apparently have
adopted a parcel tax to pay for schools. The ballot deadline
was yesterday; votes were counted almost immediately and
the finally tally gave Measure S just over the 2/3
supermajority it needed to pass.
For the entire article, click here
3. Caps should mean lower school tax
increases next year
By ANDREW SHAW The York Dispatch
Updated: 10/04/2010 05:02:33 PM EDT
Taxpayers ... rejoice?
There's a lot that can change before the 2011-12 school
district budgets are finalized next spring, but the state's
recently released property tax caps show it will be difficult
for school boards to pass tax increases approaching
anything near what they were a few years ago.
The average property tax cap in York County is 1.7 percent
for the upcoming budget year. That's compared to 3.6
percent this year and 5.1 percent last year.
For the entire article, click here
In hard times, 9-R seeks tax increase
Money needed for educational improvements, Durango school
district says
by Emery Cowan
Herald Staff Writer
Article Last Updated; Sunday, October 03, 2010 12:00AM
Faced with declining revenues and a gloomy economic
forecast, the Durango School District 9-R Board is asking
voters for a mill- levy increase to pay for educational
improvements the district no longer can afford.
School administrators say the tax increase - ballot issue 3A
- would raise $3.2 million per year for smaller class sizes,
quality teachers and innovative programs and technology.
If approved, property taxes for a home valued at $400,000
would go up by $60 a year, or $5 a month.
Officials say the increase is a necessity to maintain quality
education in Durango schools, but others in the
community are wary of another tax increase…
For the entire article, click here
4. School's budget passes despite tax
concerns
By GEORGE LEDBETTER, Record Editor Monday, October 04, 2010
Chadron’s Board of Education unanimously approved a
$13.88 million budget Monday and a total property tax
levy of $1.50 to support it, but only after hearing from two
residents who said the long term trend of increasing costs
and taxes must be changed.
“How can we sustain the increasing gap between income
and taxes?” asked Bill Cebula, who said he thinks it will
take decades to reduce current high levels of
unemployment. “How can we keep our youth from being
trapped in that bubble (unemployment)?”
“You are facing the need for a paradigm shift in how we
educate students,” said Bruce Dye. “Our nation is going a
lot more socialistic. We are going to be forced to figure out
a different way to educate our students.”…..
For the entire article, click here
See Summary pg. 5
5. Summary
Our public school system is in a financial crisis. The recession has not only cut down jobs, but the
quality of education as well. Because of the $14.7 million cut from the 2009-2010 budgets, schools are being
shut down, dropping afterschool programs, laying off teachers, custodians, librarian assistants, counselors, and
principals. Californian advocacy groups, school districts, families, students, administrators, and teachers are
filing lawsuits against the State of California, in hopes that the Superior Court will declare the state’s financial
cuts from public schools unconstitutional. This is an attempt to recapture the quality of education that once was
the customary in our schools.
School districts, in a desperate attempt to gain financial support, are asking the government to raise
taxes in order to keep or schools afloat. Over 40,000 teachers have already been laid off in an economy where
jobs are in short supply. Californians are angry at the idea of another raise in taxes in an economy where
parents are forced to move in with their children to stay afloat. If they are given the opportunity at all, students
are now being forced to pay for the necessary equipment to play in extracurricular activities such as football,
basketball, golf and other expenditures that were once free to our youth. After school programs that once
ensured working parents that their children had a safe environment to stay in until they were off of work are
now gone. Students are trying to learn in classrooms that are overfilled, while teachers that still have jobs are
taking pay cuts.
In a declining education system such as this, the government is still planning to cut $14.1 million more from
the upcoming school year’s budget. With parent’s already in a financial bind, where will they find the extra
money to pay for their child’s or children’s public education? Our Governor is trying to convince us that
education is still a top priority in California. Politicians are telling us they have a plan to get our schools back in
line, but until they are elected, we will never know. The fact of the matter is raising the taxes on our hard
working overtaxed community will not help the situation