School finance wrestling match continues

Star-Telegram.com | 05/26/2005 | School finance wrestling match continues: "Negotiations over a sweeping school finance overhaul were going down to the wire late Thursday with no concrete signs of a deal, but plenty of posturing from key lawmakers who could either make one or break one.

Lawmakers were much closer to agreement on the spending side -- new money for teacher salaries and classroom technology, for example -- but still at loggerheads on the more contentious issue of which taxes have to be raised to offset property tax reductions."