Meeting About School Budget Might Violate State Law

A meeting planned for Thursday night at Carthage High School may violate state law.

According to a section of the state’s education law, any meeting held on school property and having to do with the general welfare of a community must be open to the public.

But that isn’t stopping the school superintendent, the school board president and some of the district’s local lawmakers from shutting the public out of a meeting to discuss a controversial tax levy hike of nearly 10 percent.

For more background, read our earlier report.