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LI school taxes to jump next year
Quick ReadTaxes due to jump an average of 4 percent.
Photo credit: Newsday / Jessica Rotkiewicz | Jennifer Scully speaks during a school board meeting. (April 25, 2011)
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Long Island school taxes are due to jump next year by an average of nearly 4 percent -- outstripping the metropolitan area's current 2.3-percent inflation rate -- in a region where property taxes already are among the nation's highest.
The prospect of an even heavier lift for the Island's taxpayers comes even as school spending is set to rise more slowly -- an average 2.17 percent next year...
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