As Dan O’Donnell writes, a $2.6 billion federal windfall means the JFC was right to use state money elsewhere instead of on another massive increase in education spending. Read More The Joint Finance Committee Gets an A on School Funding
Republicans Count Massive $2.6 Billion Of Federal Aid Towards Funding Of K12 Schools Democrats And Education Establishment Outraged That More State Aid Wasn’t Heaped On Top Of The Federal Aid Republicans Did Add $109 Million Of State Aid To K12 Special Education – Evers Wanted To Increase Taxes By Billions, Already Nixed …
Will Legislature Give Another Massive Spending Increase To K12 Education? Or Will Legislature Back Out State GPR And Replace It With Massive Amount Of Federal Aid Like Gov. Doyle Did? Expand School Choice Income Eligibility To Open Up Popular Program To More Parents? Ban Critical Race Theory In K12 Education? …
March 26, 2021 By Ola Lisowski Gov. Tony Evers’ 2021-23 state budget proposal will scale back some of former-Gov. Scott Walker’s most impactful welfare reforms. After decades of bipartisan consensus that receiving government benefits should come with some modest requirements of beneficiaries to perform a basic job search or attain further training, Evers’ budget …
The Wisconsin DHS dumped a data “cleanup” that created a dramatic increase in COVID-19 deaths attributed to long-term care facilities and removed 2,200 confirmed cases from their COVID-19 case count. Read More DHS, Once Again, Failed To Provide Accurate And Complete Data To The Wisconsin Public
March 14, 2021 For all the drama over road funding in the budget two years ago, it’s shocking how far into the background that transportation has faded this time around. Gov. Evers’ proposed budget cuts overall funding to the Department of Transportation by $250 million. He wants to spend a grand total of $6.6 billion …
No push to return all children to in-person instruction or what we do to make up for the lost year of learning Massive spending increases, attacks on school choice, and paving the way for property tax hikes Historic spending increase would be on top of large K-12 funding increase included in the last two budgets …
As with his first budget, Gov. Evers’ proposal for 2021-2023 seeks to dramatically increase government spending in Wisconsin, raise taxes on the many to hand out aid to the select few, and create dozens of new initiatives to address social justice, equity, global warming and the public health crisis. Read More Governor Evers Introduces The 2021-2023 State Budget
In light of the debate surrounding whether or not it is safe to send kids back to schools for in-person instruction, the MacIver Institute analyzed various studies to see what the data had to say about the in-school transmission of COVID-19. Read More MI Analysis: Is It Safe To Re-Open Schools?
Dan O’Donnell – Democrats have spent weeks screaming about how the Capitol riot was the gravest threat to democracy since 9/11. In reality, their response to it—the utterly unconstitutional Senate trial of a private citizen—is a far greater threat to the long-term stability of American democracy. Read More The Senate Trying A Private Citizen Is The Real Danger To Democracy