School tax rates skyrocket in Nassau
Photo credit: Steve Pfost | Leslie Spitzkoff stands with her tax bill inside her office in Roslyn Heights. (Oct. 5, 2012)
Thousands of Nassau homeowners may be shocked when they open their school tax bills this month.
Falling house values and successful assessment protests have helped push up school tax rates to more than double the increases projected when voters approved school budgets this spring. In some districts such as Roosevelt and Uniondale, rates have jumped 10 times higher than projected.
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