School finance in Texas is on trial, and this week a representative of a national polling firm detailed his company’s results of a survey conducted in the summer. The poll showed that Texans are generally in favor of tax increases that benefit schools, but that if they live in a property wealthy district, where some of those funds are subject to recapture by the state, the amount of support drops dramatically. In one county, Calhoun, almost 90 percent of those polled refused to support a tax rate hike because of the rule that requires so-called property rich districts to remit money back to the state to be sent to poorer districts. Since voters must approve tax rate hikes proposed by their districts, school officials testified that this obstacle to funding is affecting their operations and budgeting.