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Racine committee weighs state bill to decouple voucher funding from local school tax base
Summary
At a July 28 legislative committee meeting, Racine Unified School District members discussed proposed state legislation to move voucher funding off the local tax levy and into state general revenue, asked staff for fiscal and legal research, and raised concerns about equalization and accountability.
At its July 28 meeting, the Racine Unified School District Board Legislative Committee discussed proposed state legislation to decouple public school and private voucher funding, asked district staff to research fiscal and legal impacts and instructed staff to report back to the committee. Committee members raised concerns about how the change could affect local tax levies, state aid equalization and oversight of voucher schools.
The committee chair summarized background materials prepared by Anne Chapman, research director for the Wisconsin Association of School Business Officials, and said the current statutory mechanism routes roughly $11,000 per voucher student to families and reduces the district's reported enrollment while the district can…
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