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TUCSON, Ariz. — It could cost Tucson Unified School District millions of dollars. The Arizona Supreme Court says state government is not required to reimburse TUSD for the money it spends on desegregation. The district says if it loses those dollars, every student could feel it.
After decades under a Federal Court order to force TUSD to end unequal treatment for minority students, the order has been lifted, but TUSD says it still needs desegregation spending to avoid sliding back into trouble. Paying any tax may feel equally painful for you but to the state, taxes are not all the same. There’s primary property taxes, and secondary property taxes. That’s important because TUSD had been getting its desegregation money from primary property taxes. And if your primary property tax bill exceeds more than one percent of the value of your house, in this case for desegregation funding, the state reimburses to make up the difference.
TUSD Superintendent Doctor Gabriel Trujillo says the ruling could affect about 68 million dollars a year—and says desegregation methods like magnet schools are so woven into district operations all students could feel the effect.
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