A few weeks ago forms for the state's STAR program arrived.

The basic STAR program, available to all other homeowners, will be phased in over three years beginning in the 1999-2000 school year.

Due to the recession of 2008 and ongoing financial issues, the STAR program has had severe cuts in its funding.

And today more than 200,000 senior citizens in this state pay no property, school property taxes at all because of our STAR program.

But the STAR program and high-tax aid also shifted money toward districts with the lowest needs.

The writers are certainly correct that continuation of the STAR program is not guaranteed.

Each spring, California students in grades 2 through 11 must take a series of tests that comprise the state's STAR program.

The STAR program would reserve more money for student aid and inject competition into the current lending scheme.

He is now a mentor at the STAR program in Hempstead.

The STAR program had been almost 80 percent effective in test runs around the state at preventing recidivism among inmates.