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Archive Home > 2007 > March > 22 > Bill offers a way to fund new schools

Bill offers a way to fund new schools

Tax based on value of construction urged as a way to share the burden

By James Sinks / The Bulletin
March 22, 2007

SALEM - A new proposal floated at the Statehouse on Wednesday may help solve what has been a decade-old impasse over making growth pay for schools.

Rather than targeting only new residential construction to pay for schools - an idea that has been repeatedly blocked by the home-building industry....

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