March 20, 2018      5:09 AM

The public weighs in at the Public School Finance Commission

The commission hasn’t discussed it much, but a serious effort will need to consider tax implications on both the debt and operations side of school district budgets

This week’s Commission on Public School Finance meeting – with 11 panels and 70 speakers – is hard to boil down, but the vast majority of testimony can be condensed into one statement: Money does matter.

Even that, though, is likely to come under fire as the commission’s various working groups begin to draft recommendations for a final report to the Legislature.

Here are some of the key takeaways from what is quite likely the only day of public testimony before this commission.

By Kimberly Reeves

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