Sentence examples for highest school tax from inspiring English sources

Thus the district has the highest school tax rate in Nassau County.

With virtually no commercial property to help pay taxes, it suffers from the highest school tax rate in Nassau County, low spending per student and high teacher turnover.

As a result, Roosevelt has the highest school taxes in Nassau County, charging $568 per $1,000 of assessed valuation compared with the $400 or so charged in wealthier communities like Garden City and Great Neck.

He said he sympathized with residents, who pay the highest school taxes in Nassau County, and promised to seek more help in Albany.

An error in calculating tax rates in Peekskill and a drop in the tax base in Cortlandt will mean higher school tax bills for homeowners in both municipalities who live in the Hendrick Hudson School District.

THE annual STAR rebate checks may not have the same benefit for Long Islanders this year, because some — or all — of each rebate may be wiped out by a higher school tax bill.

Here are three specific solutions to overcome Thomas L. Friedman's depiction of President Bush's second term as "The Great Waste of Time": Make computer literacy a graduation requirement from junior high school; tax all wages, not just those up to $90,000, to resolve the Social Security problem; make Medicare eligibility progressive, as in taxes.

Similarly, they have a financial self-interest in not approving the building of low-cost homes, which tend to coincide with more children — and higher school taxes.

In Eastchester, a middle-class town in Westchester, officials and parents expressed concern that a change in the formula would take money away from their school district and lead to higher school taxes and cutbacks in education programs.

A suit filed by residents concerned about traffic congestion and higher school taxes stalled the project, Mr. Faltischek said, adding that the developer is now suing the village for $25 million in damages.

The school board has been under pressure for years over dissatisfaction with the district's declining performance on the state standardized tests; the evaporation of a large budget surplus; and Orthodox voters whose children are not in the public schools and tend to have less tolerance for high school taxes.