School taxes fall -- or rise

Patrick Marley and Amy Hetzner report in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that taxes by school districts will be down slightly statewide, though there will be increases and larger decreases in individual districts.

Gov. Jim Doyle's plan to keep property taxes down by giving schools additional state aid is working as billed because overall school taxes will go down, even though some parts of the state will see increases, Berry [Todd Berry, president of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance] said.