Dear Editor: Education funding is extremely complicated, and you can’t blame people for sometimes misunderstanding how it works. If you pay attention, you will notice there are very few politicians, on either side of the aisle, who are willing to even have a conversation about it.
I get it. My eyes literally glaze over when I hear things like revenue limits, equalization aid, categorical aids and school levy tax credit. You might get something wrong, and you don’t want to be quoted. It’s intimidating to talk about because it is incredibly complex.
After spending years trying to get my head around it, I have to wonder if that isn’t the point of it all. The groups working to dismantle public education are counting on us not understanding, and not paying attention. I actually feel sorry for any decent Republican legislator who has to defend what their party is doing to the communities they represent, forcing them to tax themselves by starving their public schools of funding and syphoning local public tax dollars to unaccountable private voucher schools throughout our state…