Email reveals division among education advocates over pitching a school funding sales tax

Email reveals division among education advocates over pitching a school funding sales tax

An education coalition that had planned to pitch a statewide sales tax to a committee studying the state’s school funding system reversed course before presenting the idea at a formal meeting after fielding resistance from other education advocates. Doug Reisig, the executive director of the Montana Quality Education Coalition, emailed members of his organization Aug. 26 to tell them his group planned to endorse a statewide sales tax in order to…