[the school district would be "forced" to add another levy to the property tax roles. Or at least put it on the ballot.]

Yes, what the author said was:

"["After taking our current levy dollars, the state expects us to run a new levy on top of this just to keep the levy programs we already voted to fund."]

The general idea of this "levy swap" is to burden-shift LOCAL funding BACK to the STATE level. But, yes, it does seem that the VERY FIRST thing the school district WANTS to do after any such "levy swap" is create YET ANOTHER LOCAL property tax increase.

And, why?

Because they will ALWAYS want "MORE MONEY!" and no matter HOW MUCH money the state gives them, if they HAVE the option to run LOCAL levies, they WILL.

Moreover, they WILL do so to WHATEVER limit the legislature ALLOWS them to do so - thus enabling yet ANOTHER BURDEN-SHIFT BACK to the local level.

Solution?

FUND K-12 from the STATE level and PERMANENTLY CURTAIL local school districts' property taxing powers.