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Jeff Smith: “We can't afford to be paying for two systems, the voucher…”

Featuring: Jeff Smith, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 31

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Jeff Smith Show: 12-30-25

Published | Video Starts at 25:54

And speaking of public education, we need to properly reform the funding mechanism so that we don't run into the issues that we're having with our public schools, meaning closures, as well as cutting programs and things like that. We can't afford to be paying for two systems, the voucher system and the public school system. We can't be doing that. And there's just so many. There's a number of things. (25:54–26:01)

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Asserts that funding both voucher and public school systems is financially unsustainable.

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