The North Fond du Lac School Board is expected to give final approval to the 2016 budget at their meeting next Monday. A handful of people were in attendance at the district’s annual meeting this week. Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says the budget is balanced with no increase in the tax rate. But Sadoff says the North Fond du Lac School District and other area districts are seeing a steady increase in the amount of taxpayer money lost due to the private school voucher program. “In our budget we are putting in over $20,000 that we’re sending to St. Mary’s Springs and WLA,” Sadoff said. “St. Mary’s Springs, I believe they’re getting 70 voucher students, over $400,000 of local tax money without any local control or oversight.” Sadoff says the amount of money going to voucher schools is “substantially bigger” and he says the funding mechanism has changed. “Before the voucher schools were paid by the state, that’s changed dramatically. Now we count the students and then its like open enrollment. We will get a bill that we will have to levy locally from our taxpayers.”
