Rick Gordon: The Act 46 shell game

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Rick Gordon, who is a member of the Westminster School Board and the director of the Compass School, a private nonprofit school for grades 7-12 in Westminster.
It should surprise no one, least of all our legislators, that we face an expected 8 cent increase in the education tax rate in the coming year. This increase was baked into the Act 46 school merger legislation when voters were offered a short-term 10 cent tax “incentive” to follow the