You do realize that about 90% of all sate taxes go to lincoln and omaha schools and state % in a small school is 10% or less of the total budget.
The goal will be to change the tax code to not allow so much local control and revert local tax dollars to the state, this will force consolidation as now the state will control funding YOU will get your consolidation you so badly want, and the cost will be loss of local control and majority of you local land tax dollars will now be set by Lincoln and Omaha voters and spent by those districts Congrats, now the future of raising and lowering the taxes on the land in your area will now be set and controlled by what those districts need and want.
According to the Tax Foundation, the 10 states with the highest property taxes in 2019 were New Jersey (2.13%), Illinois (1.97%), New Hampshire (1.89%), Vermont (1.76%), Connecticut (1.73%), Texas (1.60%), Nebraska (1.54%), Wisconsin (1.53%), Ohio (1.52%), and Iowa (1.43%)
Iowa and Illinois use the system you are wanting to force consolidation. Iowa put in about 10 or so years ago and Illinois did it before they did, both promised lower taxes as the result both have not delivered BUT both got what they wanted by getting rid of the local control
Ok so I will repeat what has been said, Some have referred to the Iowa system for taxes that forced consolidation, another said wish someone else would make the decision because the local people are to connected to it. The State of Nebraska is trying to push a new tax system that promises just like Iowa and Illinois did to lower taxes but at the cost is local control. So i simple used some facts to show these are just a way of taking local control of money away and that yes we may see it needs consolidating but until those voters decide its up to them. Someone else also said they never vote on this, I explained they do each board election and local people that want consolidation just need to get involved with the voting and school board processes Basically I am just explaining how America and the voting processes works and how taking away local controll is a permeant thing if you lose you will never get it back in a rural area because you will never have the votes to override Lincoln or Omaha to change it once you lose it.
Where did you get your information? You seem to like the 90% number...but it was proven wrong in my last post. Considering that most of the population base in Nebraska is indeed in the Metro Area, It would make sense that they would be paying in a larger portions and spending a larger portion. It's really not a simple formula, but what is simple is that smaller districts are spending more money per pupil then larger districts. Your original assertion was that 90% of public school funding was coming from local taxes and that is simply not true.
I lol at this whole "loss of local control" thing. It just a giant boogie man that people use to scare the less informed.
The truth is, you want people to do what you think is best and if the don't you want to now put a third party in do what you feel is best, You can not see the fault in your logic because you believe your logic is correct, you are self righteous. I only want freedom of those living in that district to do what they feel is best.
If it were not for a Grandfather Clause, the Twin River school would be deemed in violation of many codes.
Most small school district that are not high ELL or high in poverty recieve almost nothing in state funding Many as low as 5% of the total budget
