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Kenosha speaker: 723-student enrollment drop cost district about $9.4 million; calls for tax-bill transparency on vouchers
Summary
A public commenter told the Kenosha School District board that a 723-student decline reduced state aid by roughly $9.4 million and urged the board to ask the city to show on property tax bills how much state funding is redirected to private voucher schools; the commenter cited state bills that would require such disclosure.
Robin Cullen, who identified herself as from the City of Kenosha, told the Kenosha School District board that the district lost about 723 students this year — roughly a 4% decline — and that the drop "translated in over $9,400,000 less than general state aid." Cullen said the district will receive a one-time declining-enrollment exemption of about $3,800,000 but warned that the exemption is temporary.
"When state aid goes down, property taxes go up," Cullen said during the public comment period. "The shortfall doesn't vanish.…
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