Friday, March 30, 2007
YOUNGSTOWN — “Additional taxes aren’t something people are looking for right now,” said Richard Denamen, superintendent of the Mahoning Valley Educational Service Center.
Denamen’s comment, in reaction to a Regional Chamber of Commerce proposal to provide tuition-free college or vocational school education, appeared to represent a common feeling among local school officials.
To promote a better educated workforce, the chamber’s board this week unanimously endorsed tuition-free local college or vocational school education for all Mahoning Valley high school graduates to be funded by administrative overhead savings to be achieved through consolidation of school districts into just one per county.
If those savings aren’t sufficient, a tax would be put on the November 2008 ballot to fund the tuition-free program, under the chamber proposal.
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