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Columbus Taxes, Suburban Schools – Columbus School Board extends “win-win”
May 7th, 2010 categories: For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers
Great Architecture at the newly refurbished Southwood Elementary
Every once in a while, I will have a buyer who specifically is looking for a home that has Columbus Taxes but is located in an area where the children go to a School System that is not Columbus– for example, Westerville, Hilliard, Dublin.
As I write this, there are at least 135 such schools actively for sale. One nuance that some would-be homeowners might miss is that the school assigned to some of these areas might be the poorest performing school in that suburban district. The paranoia regarding Columbus Schools is sometimes just that but this decision ensures that there will be these pockets around town for years to come.
“…On May 4, the seven-member Columbus Board of Education voted 5-1 with one member abstaining to pass a resolution saying that the board will allow the Win-Win agreement to automatically renew at the end of the month.
The Win-Win resolution puts to rest speculation that Columbus might have pulled out of the 24-year-old agreement, which could have put in jeopardy the ability of some newer areas of Columbus to continue being part of nine suburban school districts.
In an effort to cut costs, Superintendent Gene Harris instead proposed that the board eliminate 92 percent of its high-school bus stops next school year, meaning those students would have to get to the nearest school building to catch a bus. ”
To Cut Costs, School Board May Eliminate 92% of High School Bus Stops…..
“At its next meeting in two weeks, the board might decide on the proposal to reduce the number of high-school bus stops to 120 from the current 1,466.
Although the state requires bus stops to be no more than a half-mile from the homes of students through eighth grade, there are no rules for high-school students because districts aren’t required to bus them, Vargo said.”
Read more from the Columbus Dispatch here.
