COMMENTARY | Should voters OK special tax extension for Manatee schools? It depends on who you trust

At moments during a debate Thursday about a proposed extension of a special 1-mill property tax levy for the Manatee School District, the two sides got bogged down in lots of talk about numbers that was more than a little difficult to follow for anyone not familiar with the byzantine nature of public school finance in Florida.

Yes, they were debating abo…