Article: RACINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT; Staying in this together; Breaking away from the Racine district and creating a separate school district for residents in Caledonia is a bad idea on several levels.

We have three questions on the issue of whether the Village of Caledonia should secede from the Racine Unified School District and start its own school system. The first two are for supporters of the move, and the last is for Racine Unified officials.

Question 1: How high do you want Caledonia taxes to go?

Withdrawing from the district and starting a whole new school system is going to cost a lot of money. If that's not a precise cost estimate, that's because no one really knows right now how much it would cost.

One Racine Unified School Board member told the Journal Sentinel's Dani McClain that taxes would increase between 30% and 50%. Estimates for the seceding district of Shawano-Gresham ...

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