Gov. Ed Rendell is selling Act 72, but many school board members and residents aren't buying.
Rendell has become more vocal in encouraging school directors to sign on to the property-tax reduction plan, despite a request from the Pennsylvania School Boards Association to delay the deadline for doing so.
Only four of 500 districts have voted to opt in. The Philadelphia School District was forced to opt in as part of the law's passage. A recent PSBA survey showed more than 80 school boards leaning toward rejecting it. Many school board members and their constituents say Rendell's lobbying is having little impact.
The law requires school boards to raise the earned income tax rate by 0.1 percentage point to qualify for slots money. That money, which the state estimates won't be available before 2007, must then be used to reduce school real estate taxes. School boards must also get residents' approval of any further tax increase above the rate of inflation.
Because the state doesn't know yet when money for property tax cuts under Act 72 would become available or how much it might be, school boards are inevitably making their decisions without enough information. MORE
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Rob:
Thanks for your comments. As for cremation, it was against the Cathoilc faith untill about 1964. The reasoning was, if we are created in God's image then we have not right to destroy that even after death. However, it's is considered a mater of personal choice now. I hope that answers you question.
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