I was waiting for The Locker Room’s Terry Stoops to weigh in on the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research’s study on charter schools, which I first read about in today’s Journal.
The wait wasn’t long:
Ran Coble, director of the Center, says that the state needs to show taxpayers that their investment in charter schools is sound. I say that the same idea applies to district schools. Are district schools “good stewards of the people’s funds?” Nope.
With that in mind, The Pubilc Pulse’s Andrea Verykoukis speaks out for Wake County’s right to raise taxes in order to pay for schools:
Why the commissioners need people to come to them begging them to support this right to tax I’ll never understand. Why they’ll go for an increase in the sales tax, considered by many a regressive tax, instead of raising property taxes and fighting for the transfer tax, I simply cannot say. But I’m glad people are telling it like it is, because we all need to face facts and pony up.
Uh-huh.
