The Education Governor Left Wisconsin School Districts Out In The Cold

[TexasTowelie]

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/

[AllyCat]

1. This is exactly right. He cut our budgets, then "put money back in"

so that he could say he was funding schools. Of course, a huge amount of money gets siphoned out of our budgets because of vouchers. Additionally, our school funding formula makes it so that districts who have fewer students get less money per pupil from the state. Makes some immediate logical sense that you don't need as much money if you have fewer kids. But the reality of that is that more than half the districts in Wisconsin have declining enrollment as people move to the larger cities to get access to services, both public and private. And if we lose 100 kids in our district in a year, we still need the same number of buildings maintained and teachers to maintain adequate staffing. We cannot just decrease the number of employees proportionally.

Walker's policies have hurt our schools badly and it is getting worse, not better. And that is just public primary and secondary schools. That doesn't even touch what has happened to our higher education venues that are publicly funded.

But private schools that saddle their students with huge amounts of debt are doing great.

[strangedaysindeed]

2. At this point, most all of their tactics have been laid bare.

so it's up to the people if they're going to be allowed to continue with their shell games, etc.

voters Should be able to put them in check, so If they manage to reinstall Wanker and Co anyway, it'll be obvious

ELECTION TAMPERING !

C U Wednesday

[LakeArenal]

3. Meanwhile public schools are falling apart.

Freudal Lords hate education. Only sons of white men are worthy.