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Board discussion: vouchers reduce district state aid and shift costs to local property taxpayers, member says
Summary
A board member outlined how state-funded private school vouchers reduce Verona Area School District state aid and raise the local tax burden; trustees discussed pushing municipalities to show voucher amounts on property tax bills and flagged accountability concerns for private schools.
Joe, a Verona Area School District board member, told the board that state-paid private-school vouchers are deducted from the district’s state aid and that the lost aid is ultimately paid by local property taxpayers. “The ultimate payer of voucher student tuition is paid by local property tax bills of the taxpayers in the district,” Joe said, describing the mechanism as opaque and rising in impact.
Joe estimated the district lost roughly…
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