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Related: About this forumLawsuit Backed by Ken Paxton Could Spell Trouble for 21 Texas School Districts
Months after warning school districts that it could be illegal to reduce or repeal their local optional homestead exemptions, Attorney General Ken Paxton swiftly intervened in a citizen lawsuit filed Thursday challenging the practice.
More than 20 school districts have tweaked their exemptions since Texas lawmakers last year increased a separate state homestead exemption, angering the Republican leaders who championed the property tax cut.
It is a clear sleight-of-hand reduction in the local option homestead exemption by a handful of school districts, Paxton, a former Republican state lawmaker, said in a statement. This is an attempted money-grab, pure and simple. These districts clearly intend to undermine state law and negate the tax break."
Lawmakers spent weeks last spring arguing about how best to slash levies. Texas House and Senate leaders ultimately announced a deal with much fanfare to reduce property taxes by increasing the states homestead exemption to $25,000.
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kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)She is so upset because her kids attend good public schools in SF. They are of Asian Indian descent and she is afraid for her kids because they are brown and full of confidence and thinks Texas schools are hell holes. She has been urging her hubby to find a job in the Bay Area so they don't have to move.
TexasTowelie
(112,422 posts)There are good schools and bad schools in Texas. Some of the schools will have students and faculty that are more racially sensitive than others, but it depends mostly on location. My advice would be for them to find a temporary location in the city they are moving to so that they can get a better idea of finding a permanent location that will meet their needs not only for which schools their children attend, but for other social relationships that their family want.