This piece has been edited to correct the first name of Wayne Barker.

Northwest Allen County Schools is selling you a bill of goods.

Their plea to voters is to raise $96 million in property taxes, bridging a budget shortfall and increasing pay for teachers.

What they have not made clear to taxpayers and parents of students is that NACS currently transfers 15% out of its education fund, intended to pay teacher salaries, into operations. So that money to give teachers a raise currently exists within NACS coffers, but district leadership has chosen not to.

Superintendent Wayne Barker has defended NACS construction projects, totalling tens of millions of dollars, by stating that they are “tax neutral” to homeowners, while conveniently disregarding that the proposed tax levy could come at a

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