Stick a fork in the 2023-25 budget – it’s done. Read More Signed, Sealed And Delivered: Bigger Government For 4 More Centuries
Signed, Sealed And Delivered: Bigger Government For 4 More Centuries
Education spending
MPS Board Prepares to Vote on $1.2 Billion Budget
By Ola Lisowski -
Budget, Budget Hearing, Education, Education spending, Milwaukee Public Schools, MPS, MPS Board, MPS Budget, School Referendum, School Spending
MPS will be holding a public hearing on a $1.2 billion budget on the evening of May 19. The largest line item in the budget proposal would be $25.5 million in salary and benefits for attracting and retaining staff. Read More MPS Board Prepares to Vote on $1.2 Billion Budget
As K12 Education Funding Jumps Dramatically, Still Just 54% of Funding Spent On Instruction
By MacIver Institute -
Analysis, Education, Education spending, Milwaukee Public Schools, School Spending, Schools, Spending
Ola Lisowski returns to analyze school spending in Wisconsin: although school spending keeps going up, the 2017-18 data show money towards the classroom is going down. Read More As K12 Education Funding Jumps Dramatically, Still Just 54% of Funding Spent On Instruction
MI Analysis: Gov. Evers’ Missed Opportunities In His State Of The State Address
By MacIverNews -
Analysis, Criminal Justice Reform, Dairy Crisis, Education spending, Evers, Evers Taxes, Farmers, Gov. Evers, Gov. Tony Evers, Manufacturing and Agriculture Tax Credit, Marijuana, Redistricting, SOS, State of the State, Student Achievement, Student Debt, Tony Evers, Tuition, Tuition Freeze, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Educational Crisis, Wisconsin State Budget
Gov. Evers’ had a golden opportunity to rise above partisan politics and to lay out his vision for Wisconsin. Our full analysis of the speech reveals how he let that slip away by what he chose to say, and almost more importantly, what he left out. Read More MI Analysis: Gov. Evers’ Missed Opportunities In His State Of The State Address
What Gov. Tony Evers Got Wrong in His K-12 Education Proposal
By Ola Lisowski -
2019-21 Budget, Act 10, Education, Education spending, Gov. Tony Evers, It's Working Wisconsin, K-12 Education, K-12 Funding, Public Education, School Choice
By Ola Lisowski – Gov. Tony Evers – once educator, then bureaucrat, and now Wisconsin’s governor – has dedicated his life to public education. His gubernatorial campaign largely centered around the question of equity and progress in K-12 education. Yet his 2019-21 budget proposal, up for a Thursday vote in the state’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC), would have turned back the clock on the very values he claims to hold dear. Read More What Gov. Tony Evers Got Wrong in His K-12 Education Proposal