Why Didn't I Think of That?

Brenden Sharkey, speaker of Connecticut's House of Representative suggests the board of education and town council budgets be presented separately. Stand alone budgets may put a different light on town budget processes and how they are looked at.

He also wanted to see funding for boards of education separated from the budgets of towns. If school boards had to levy their own taxes and mill rates they would be directly responsible to the taxpayers, he said.

“As you go out and try to sell a tax increase to your towns — 60, 70, 80 percent of that is actually going to a board of education,” he said.

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