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284 CRITICAL ISSUES IN SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT Thompson, D. & Wood, C. (2005). Money and schools (3 rd ed.). Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education. Roxana notifies teachers of possible layoffs. (2010, March 19). The Telegraph.com . Retrieved May 21, 2010 from http://thetelegraph.com/common/printer/view.php?db=alton&id=37786. Ubben, G., Hughes, L. & Norris, C. (2007). The principal: Creative leadership for excellence in schools (6 th ed.). Boston: Pearson Education.
285 CRITICAL ISSUES IN SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT Experiences with PTELL in Six Illinois School Districts: Leadership Perceptions and Student Performance Keven D. Forney Neil Sappington Guy Banicki The discussion of public education funding has been acrimonious, controversial, and is sure to be debated well into the future. The State of Illinois has a complex formula for computing State Aid for school district funding but the percentage of state revenue to schools has decreased and local property taxation has been the majority source of funding for public education. With the economy being in recession, there is no discussion of increasing State revenues to increase funding for our schools. In 1991 the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation that limited the amount of local property taxes that may be levied for all municipal forms of government, which included public school districts. The legislation was known as the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (PTELL). This legislation limited the amount of property taxes that could be levied based upon the lesser of either a maximum of 5% or the Consumer Price Index, which most recently has remained under 1%. The PTELL legislation permitted counties to conduct referenda to decide whether to impose this tax cap or not. Currently, 39 counties of the state’s 102 have approved tax caps for their municipalities including local school districts. These 39 tax-capped counties contain over 52% of the school districts of the state (Olsen, 2001, July 23). When compared to other measures enacted earlier in the “modern era” of property tax limitations, Sokolow (1998) characterizes PTELL as a “cautious and limited” approach to property tax limitation. PTELL attempts to limit the increase in taxes extended (paid) to a taxing body in successive years to the lesser of either five percent or the percentage of change in the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers (C.P.I.-U). The central feature of PTELL is calculation of the “limiting rate,” which is the multiplier that is applied to the previous year’s total extension (taxes paid to the taxing body) to calculate the maximum extension for the current year (Illinois Department of Revenue, 2001). PTELL exempts from limitation any property in the first year it appears on the tax rolls. Therefore, a taxing district experiencing a relatively high level of new property each year could realize growth in the tax extension that would be greater than either five percent or the change in the C.P.I.-U (Illinois Department of Revenue). Since 1991, when tax cap legislation was passed, numerous studies have been done analyzing the consequences of this new law. In 1997, a study of the highly affluent counties of Will, Kan, Du Page, Lake, McHenry, and Cook found a limited effect on school district operating expenditures but no effect on school district instructional spending (Dye & McGuire, 1997). Another 1998 study of school districts in the Chicago area revealed limited evidence of any effect of tax caps on student performance ( Downes , Dye, & McGuire,1998). ___________________________ Keven D. Forney, Illinois State University Neil Sappington, Illinois State University Guy Banicki, Illinois State University
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