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MJS Editorial on Walker’s Ambitions
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | November 5, 2014
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel posted an interesting editorial this afternoon on Walker’s ambitions for higher office and what that means for all of us. The editorial essentially said that a governor at the pinnacle of his power like Walker is should use that power to forge consensus and tackle some very important issues for the state of Wisconsin. One of those issues of course is to ensure adequate funding for K-12 education. Here is what the Journal-Sentinel had to say about the school funding issue:
“Ensure adequate funding for K-12 education. Walker and the GOP-dominated Legislature cut state aid to schools by nearly $800 million in the 2011-’13 budget — the largest cuts in the nation that year. Walker claimed that Act 10’s “tools” (the law that gutted collective bargaining for most public workers) helped schools make up the difference. That’s debatable. What is less debatable is his insistence on establishing a second shadow public education system by lifting the 1,000-student cap on the statewide school voucher program. It would be costly and ensure that Wisconsin has not one but two underfunded public school systems. A fiscal conservative such as Walker should know better”.
Amen.
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