The Education Governor Left Wisconsin School Districts Out In The Cold [View all]

Ever since his early budget cuts out of Madison that reduced revenue sharing for Wisconsin school districts, the self titled Education Governor has been touting the money he partially put back into his budgets. Yet it left Wisconsin public schools short.

Then he took more money out of their budgets and handed it to private school operators in the form of vouchers.

And then somewhere in the middle of all of this, Governor Scott Walker capped the property tax levies for schools systems…making it hard to exceptionally difficult to replace the funds for their budgets that the Republicans in Madison had taken away.

So they resorted to using one of the tools that the governor claimed to have given them to work out their budget shortfalls. And when too many of them ran to referenda…the Republicans added even more restrictions to them.

Read more: http://bloggingblue.com/2018/11/the-education-governor-left-wisconsin-school-districts-out-in-the-cold/