Vinehout Launches Bid for Governor
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 25, 2017
From WisPolitics.com …
State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, formally kicked off her guv campaign today with a more than four-minute video, calling for Wisconsin’s own health care solution and a leader who listens.
Vinehout, who also planned a formal announcement later today in Black River Falls, says in the video she’s created four alternative budgets to show how she’d put “the people first” with Wisconsin’s resources.
“Wisconsin needs a real leader, a leader who listens, who does their homework and focuses on solving the problems people have in their daily lives,” Vinehout says.
In the video, Vinehout says her dad was a union laborer and her mom a nurse and she was able to go to college even though it was difficult to afford. She was later a college professor, but became a full-time dairy farmer and decided to get involved in politics. She said she ran for state Senate because she didn’t have health insurance and she wanted to change that for farmers and small business people paying “way too much” for poor insurance.
“I knew there was a better way, and that’s what got me involved in politics,” she says in the video.
Watch the video here.
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Low Spending Districts Concerned with Walker Veto
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 25, 2017
Check out this news story on Channel 3000 regarding the Governor’s low revenue veto and its impact on low revenue districts. Superintendents Barb Sramek (Marshall) and Mary Pfeiffer (Neenah) are quoted.
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Evers Delivers State of Education Address
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 21, 2017
State Superintendent Tony Evers delivered his State of Education address today before an audience of school superintendents and invited guests at the State Capitol in Madison. He used “The Man in the Arena” passage from President Teddy Roosevelt’s 1910 “Citizenship in a Republic” speech as a backdrop to the call for leadership in these challenging times.
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SAA News Release On Budget, Low Revenue Veto
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 21, 2017
The SAA has issued a news release thanking Governor Walker and the legislature for their investments in K12 education. We also expressed our disappointment at Governor Walker’s veto of the increase to the low revenue ceiling.
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Governor to Sign Budget, Veto Low Revenue Ceiling Upper
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 21, 2017
From WisPolitics.com …
Gov. Scott Walker will sign the biennial budget today at Tullar Elementary School in Neenah.
He announced 99 vetoes ahead of today’s signing, including wiping out an Assembly GOP plan to boost low-spending school districts.
The provision for low-spending districts, now capped at $9,100 per student, would have boosted their revenue limit to $9,300 in 2017-18 and $9,400 in 2018-19. The limit on what they spend would then increase $100 per year through 2022-23, when it would be $9,800 per student.
Other items that Walker plans to use his veto pen on include a provision giving lawmakers more input on the board that makes decisions on state employee’s health care and the creation of a state prosecutor board.
See Wisconsin State Journal coverage here.
See Wisconsin Public Radio coverage here.
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