It’s not equal taxation though based on how they screw with the common level ratio

Every sale doesn’t qualify as “fair market value”

The only fair way is to do regular reassessments but they tried that already and everyone lost their shit in the 00’s.

A serious, reliable County-wide reassessment will cost millions and take some time. No one has the political will to pay for it, conduct it and then deal with the aftermath.

Butler hasn’t reassessed since 1969 and only the lack of a complaint from someone with deep pockets to pay for the lawsuit has kept them out of court. They don’t get into the shenanigans with new buyers though either. Most of the battles take place over yearly challenges from big retail and industrial properties.

Meanwhile Beaver is facing the reality of a county wide, court ordered reassessment due to a lawsuit.

Was COVID ever thought to be in the water supply?

You say that as if it doesn’t happen out at the lots

Don’t cross the streams!

It’s right in Norfolk Southern’s own filings on their political activities webpage.

Declare “River Law” and immediately legalize monkey knife fights

My wife has a seed allergy so we always have to skip it. But they are great.

Go a couple doors down to Tepache

Maybe Donora?

Why don’t they just wait for some snowfall, put a drone up or fly over in a plane. Should be pretty obvious where the fire is.

My point is doing more of the same just with more money probably isn’t going to get better results.

There are broken districts. There is a state intervention program to deal with that, but it doesn’t do a very good job. Like Act 47 for municipalities, many that go in never come back out.

The lawsuit is about reworking the pa school funding mechanism. Hopefully to direct more money to schools that do not have the benefit of a wealthy tax base- that’s the “more money” part.

What exactly do you think the plaintiffs are looking for here? Less money?

I never said education funding should be cut.

You mind telling me what the percent of IEP students is in PPS versus say- the overall for Pennsylvania?

Since the need is so substantial certainly that IEP figure should be off the charts right?

Yes I understand how needs of students from different backgrounds are different.

It still comes down to a question of just how different? In my example PPS is spending almost twice as much per student as the next 3 biggest districts in the area. If you combine those 3 they have almost the same enrollment as PPS but only 58% the revenue.

Should PPS be spending 3x? Is that enough?

No one can ever seem to answer what the figure is.

Over the past decade or so PPS has increased taxes, revenue and spending all while it’s enrollment has been in steady decline. They added something like 100 administrator positions in that time as well.

The funding mechanisms are broken, but so are many of these districts. It’s good money after bad until they fix how these districts operate.

Pittsburgh Public spends almost double the amount per student as does the large, 2nd or 3rd ring suburban districts around it.

Those districts are filled with wealthy people that is true. They have a huge tax base to draw from, but they pale in comparison the to non-residential tax base available to the City.

So if double isn’t enough to over come the disparity, is triple? Quadruple?

What’s the magic number?

Christ, you can literally look up every single district in the state and do the math.

Have at it-

https://www.education.pa.gov/Documents/Teachers-Administrators/School%20Finances/Finances/Summary%20of%20AFR%20Data/AFR%20Data%20Summary%20Level/Finances%20AFR%20Expenditures%202020-2021.xlsx

Take a few of your nearby districts and look up their enrollment, budget and performance figures.

Many of the big spenders on a per student basis are in medium to large suburban schools with good performance but some are also in large or small urban schools with not so great performance.

How that money is spent is the big difference between them.

And it always will be because you aren’t asking the school to manage a whole host of issues that are based outside its walls.

It doesn’t change the fact that more and more money into a school system doesn’t always remedy the problems that system suffers from. Because the school can only do so much.

It’s literally a lawsuit about school funding.

Throwing more money at a district doesn’t always solve the problem.

There are very many poorly performing districts that spend much more per pupil than do their better performing neighbors.

You’re asking, so it appears to have worked.

11/12. Probably should have done it not at a stop light