Here's a great essay on the Property tax issue by Capital District Libertarian Party member Werner Hetzner.
Increasingly we get reports about shifting the funding of public education away from the property tax. This is nothing new. It is just one more attempt to solve the wrong problem.
The original idea had been for public schools to be a local responsibility. Local people would operate local schools to teach local children with revenue collected with a tax on local property. That was the public school model. 
Unfortunately, that model has become increasingly unaffordable over time. The ever rising costs to operate public schools was especially hard on people living on fixed incomes like Social Security. The inability to keep up with rising school taxes force many people to sell their homes and others to lower their standard of living.