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Private voucher schools.

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Green Bay is the

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first municipality

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in the state

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to show those costs

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on residents' property tax bills

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In your mind

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why is that

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important to delineate?

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Well again

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this was something that

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our school district

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felt very strongly about

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for some time.

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They brought it

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to our common council.

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We just felt like

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transparency is really

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the best answer here.

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I think

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a lot of people assume

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public dollars are going

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to public schools.

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When you show this to them

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it tends to raise some questions

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But even if you're an advocate

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of private voucher schools

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I think this enables one

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to make that argument.

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The system that we have

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in place is the one

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that voucher advocates

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have asked for

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at the state of Wisconsin.

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So if they're not

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comfortable with it

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they should bring forward

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an alternate way of

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funding education

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in the state of Wisconsin.

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I know that

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public school advocates

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have been doing that

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for some time.

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We're certainly looking forward

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to seeing how that

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lawsuit moves forward

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and how the Legislature

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responds to this debate

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in the next session.