Senate Bill 93 is the General Assembly’s very flawed version of a new-school financing system. Along with allowing the state to collect a 20-mill property tax and increase the sales tax by 1.75 percent (bringing the total to 7.5 percent), it would remove a school district’s ability to levy local income taxes and sales taxes. It would also designate a single statewide per student average, currently proposed at $11,535 per student. This per student amount would follow the student to a chartered public school (traditional public school district) or a chartered nonpublic school (private, religious school).
