Letter: How to really help Pittsfield taxpayers
Letter: How to really help Pittsfield taxpayers Published: 2/19/2021 12:01:27 AM Ray Duckler’s article in Saturday’s Monitor about the challenge of funding the schools in Pittsfield could be written about many communities in New Hampshire. The problem, simply, is that our schools are funded mostly by local property taxes, and when state government reduces the small piece of the cost of education that it funds or increases the cost of education with initiatives like the voucher bill that is currently being debated by our Legislature, the only way to fill these financial holes is by furthe...