Reader comments: School construction costs are soaring
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Come on D-News | 9:36 a.m. Oct. 13, 2008
Come on, this article is in the OTHER daily newspaper today. Do your own reporting!
evensteven | 11:03 a.m. Oct. 13, 2008
Looks like they just printed the press release verbatim. While the increase in costs is old news, laying the foundation for a new bond and or a tax increase IS new news and should be reported on.
Re: Come on ... | 12:26 p.m. Oct. 13, 2008
I'm a little surprised by the criticism at the DN when it is very clearly an AP story. Every newspaper in the country reprints news agency articles from time to time (Reuters, AP, etc). No reporting is done by the local newspaper because it is a reprinting.
Hopefully, this will provide an education lesson for you.
Hopefully, this will provide an education lesson for you.
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Helen Waite | 12:59 p.m. Oct. 13, 2008
All because the east side schools didnt want to share???????? Send them the bill
Re: evensteven | 2:42 p.m. Oct. 13, 2008
Evensteven you sound jealous. First you insist upon a split then if it looks like someone else might get more then you, you turn bitter. How petty can you and your group of east-side mayors be?! You must be a divorce lawyer.
Split = Great Idea | 3:20 p.m. Oct. 13, 2008
East siders were no dummies when they arranged the split, and it's A SHAME since west-siders helped build schools through the years on the east-side. Why not share the cost across a larger number of people, thus keeping the costs down for everyone?
re: evensteven | 3:30 p.m. Oct. 13, 2008
Evensteven get real. Your east-side district will end up with at least 30 percent more funds than you have ever had , while the west side loses money all because of your greed. Now you are saying they can't ask for a bond or raise taxes? You have forced them into this position. You and your group of snake-oil salesmen are such poor sports. What a bunch of east-side loosers!
John Pack Lambert | 4:32 p.m. Oct. 13, 2008
Utah needs to follow the example of state's like Michigan and centralize all funding so that each school gets the same amount of funds per student.
Anonymous | 6:07 p.m. Oct. 13, 2008
Actually Utah's WPU is what Michigan and other states have used to reform their education funding. Utah's WPU is the equalization part of the per student funding, beyond that the Local School Boards have taxing authority that is where the difference in funding district to district comes from.
Anonymous | 5:55 a.m. Oct. 14, 2008
Time to go fully with equalization Utah. You can't let those hoity-toity Eastsiders get out of paying for this. The State should pool ALL the property tax from this point forward and dole it out based on need. Take away the Districts power to change the tax, fix the problem and move forward.
$$$$$$$$ | 5:04 p.m. Oct. 16, 2008
....and Teacher Salaries and benefits get worse and worse. GO FIGURE!!
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