VOTE PUBLIC! .Our public schools have lost $3.5 billion in inflation- adjusted state aid and are still below 2010 levels. All students deserve the same great public education, yet funding for Special Needs students has been frozen for 10 years while needs and costs have skyrocketed This year alone over $274 million of your tax dollars were taken directly from public schools and given to unaccountable private schools, and will increase every year going forward . . Property taxes have gone up, not down, because local communities support their public schools and are passing referenda at record rates to make up for major cuts in state aid . The state funding formula is outdated and hits rural school districts especially hard The 860,000 students attending public schools are counting on YOU, so doyour homework and VOTE PUBLIC NOV.6ISON Saint Croix Valley Friend of Publi Education WiscoNSIN PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK