« Public School Advocates Dominate JFC Hearing | Home | Walker Urges JFC to Support His K-12 Funding Plan »
Walker Open to Tweaking Act 10 Compliance Provision
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | April 4, 2017
From WisPolitics.com . . .
Walker, making a stop at Waukesha South High School to tout his education plan, said working off a base budget for schools could mean they’d see substantially less than he’s proposed.
Walker wants to give districts an additional $200 per-pupil in the first year of the budget and another $204 in the second.
“My argument would be, we need, if anything, to build off of the foundation we put in this budget,” Walker told reporters following a tour of an engineering lab at the school.
He said with his Act 10 reforms school districts have been empowered to put more money in the classroom and his proposed K-12 spending increases “will overwhelmingly go to student success.”
Walker said it’s likely if his K-12 budget is approved, the growing number of school referendums for continuing operations will decrease.
“If this budget’s approved as we proposed, that number probably goes down dramatically,” Walker said.
Walker said he was open to tweaking his proposed requirement that districts be Act 10 compliant in order to receive the additional per-pupil aid.
“Our original intention was just to say, we’re going to put more money into our schools, let’s make sure they’re actually using the reforms that we’ve given our school districts over the years,” Walker said.
Walker said he want to ensure that schools put the overwhelming amount of the new money into the classroom, rather than into overhead.
On the issue of tweaking the Act 10 compliance provision, see also the news story from Molly Beck of the Wisconsin State Journal last Saturday.
Topics: SAA Capitol Reports, SAA Capitol Reports with Email Notifications, SAA Latest Update | No Comments »
Comments are closed.