THE TAX INCREASE TO PAY FOR OUT-OF DISTRICT STUDENTS.

It costs about $10,000 per year to educate an out-of district student in our school district. Our district gets about $7,000 per student in state aid. The difference of $3,000 is what you and the other local taxpayers have to cough up. Board member Rainer Langstedt made a proposal to charge $1600 tuition for every out of district student. That was an extremely modest proposal, because Ithaca charges over $7,000 per student. The proposal died, because all the other board members failed to support it. That failure of support added about 1.5% local school taxes on your tax bill.