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OK fine. Cut other spending a billion dollars or so, then you
can spend money on school infrastructure. Live within your
means!!   2. Racine has been given money, supposedly to repair
school buildings over the years. The school board re-directed
the money intended for maintenance of the schools directly into
the teachers bank accounts. Most recently, RUSD purchased new
buildings for administrative staff. They paid over $10 million
bucks for their new digs, which was more than $1 million dollars
more than the fair market value of the property, then proceeded
to go way over budget in remodeling the building. Adding insult
to injury, the