Governor Rick Perry has set April 17th as the date for a special legislative session to resolve state school finance issues. Per the Houston Chronicle, "The political question now facing lawmakers is whether to overhaul the state's business tax for a permanent school finance fix or just use a $4.3 billion surplus to cut school property taxes for next year and then leave the question of how to pay for it in the future to the Legislature that begins in 2007".
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