mbstor23 OP t1_iu1euwj wrote on October 27, 2022 at 8:55 PM

Reply to comment by JNmbrs in If you think taxes are high now, just wait until the 2023 school budget. People will be priced out of their homes. by mbstor23

Plan ahead. The gravy train from the state was going to end one day.

JNmbrs t1_iu1fbhg wrote on October 27, 2022 at 8:58 PM

Let’s play this through: let’s say they anticipated the drop in 2022/2023 state aid perfectly a decade ago. How would that have changed anything? The budget is what it is, what could they have done in 2021 or before to soften the blow? Maybe they could have started gradually raising the school levy to spread the burden across multiple years, but that wouldn’t change the fundamental problem—just the years in which it was paid for.

mbstor23 OP t1_iu2njvi wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:29 AM

Fundamental problem is that it costs $30,000 per student. JCBOE needs a forensic audit and maybe even sell off some of their property holdings.