Community Corner
Family Forum: Managing Higher Taxes
How do you find the right balance between knowing you'll have higher taxes and wanting a quality education for local children?
The New Hyde Park-related school budget and library budget all passed Tuesday night. Details of the , and 's budget passage can be found on New Hyde Park Patch.
As the budget vote neared, some people discussed how difficult it is to manage an increasing school budget and therefore higher taxes despite what might be a reasonable budget.
A Patch user, Bill Christofidis, recently wrote the following on a story about the , "If passing the school budget is 'about the children' then is it ANTI children when the parents of so many children cannot afford to live in these school districts due to enormous tax levies?"
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How do you grapple with this issue of increasing taxes but wanting a good education for the children?
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