APS to furlough teachers
When schools are on the hook for the bad decisions made by politicians, it’s always the students who pay. Through an archaic tax law, Fulton County was able to freeze property values where they were in 2016. Although this is good news for residents who argued their 2017 valuation was too high, it’s crippling to the school system that depends on Fulton tax revenue to function. Fulton’s tax revenue makes up 62.5 percent of Atlanta’s $777