School Referenda Update
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 10, 2016
There are 67 school referenda scheduled for November. In our October 6th blog post on this issue, Kenosha was listed as having an October 27th referendum in error. See the updated report from DPI’s website here.
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School Referenda Set For October and November
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 6, 2016
From The Wheeler Report:
There are 68 school referenda scheduled for October and November. One referenda, Kenosha, is scheduled for Thursday, October 27, while the remaining 67 are scheduled for the general election, November 8. The referenda can be broken down as follows:
- Issue Debt: 42 referenda, $1,139,735,000 total
- Exceed Revenue Cap for recurring purpose: 11 referenda, $40,259,000
- Exceed Revenue Cap for non-recurring purposes: 14 referenda, $157,955,000
See the report here.
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Assembly GOP Exploring Education Savings Accounts
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 6, 2016
Assembly Republicans included a proposal on so-called Education Savings Accounts in their 2017 caucus agenda introduced last month. The proposal would allow Wisconsin parents to pay for K-12 school expenses — including tuition at a private school — with a taxpayer-funded savings account.
Check out the news story by Molly Beck of the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Evers proposes flexibilities to accelerate summer learning opportunities
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 5, 2016
Today, State Superintendent Tony Evers proposed administrative rule changes that will expand high-quality summer learning opportunities for kids.
See the DPI News Release here.
See the proposed rules and fiscal estimate here.
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LFB Releases State Support for Schools Memo
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 5, 2016
From the Wheeler Report . . .
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau has released a memo on the 2015-16 Estimated State Support for School Districts. According to the memo, the $6.3 billion total is divided as follows:
- General School Aids: $4.5 billion
- Categorical Aids: $751 million
- School Levy Tax Credit: $853 million
- First Dollar Credit: $150 million
- State Residential Schools: $11 million.
The tables listed in the LFB memo show that Norris School District will receive the highest percentage of state aid at 99% state support, while Washington Island will receive the lowest percentage of state aid at 20%.
Please note that this memo uses the traditional calculation for state support of K-12 education. Therefore the $1.003 billion in combined school levy tax credits and first dollar credits are included as state support even though these dollars show up as direct property tax relief on property tax bills and cannot be used by schools for educational opportunities for students.
(BOLD commentary above added by SAA)
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