Why Massachusetts schools are having an 'extremely difficult' financial yearThe city [Braintree] has struggled to raise enough tax revenue to cover yearly school cost increases. The district's operating costs typically go up by 4% to 5% each year, according to Joyce, but state law prescribes a 2.5% limit to how much a city can increase its tax levy.
This law affects basically every city. It is stupid, written as if its sponsors had not heard of inflation. It is extra stupid, considering America’s extremely stupid practice of tying school funding to property taxes.