Parents Rally After JFC Action
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | May 20, 2015
Parents, students and public school advocates rally Wednesday morning on the porch of a home in Wauwatosa to speak out against the GOP-controlled Legislature’s latest budget action.
See Milwaukee Journal Sentinel coverage here.
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SAA News Release on JFC Action
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | May 20, 2015
The SAA issued this news release on last night’s Joint Finance Committee K-12 budget action.
As you wade through the JFC’s 30 page budget motion, that was adopted on a 12-4 party line vote, many questions will likely arise.
In our discussions with DPI staff, it is clear that we need more detail about several of the budget provisions. As these details become available we will update the SAA membership.
Stay tuned…
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JFC K-12 Motion
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | May 19, 2015
The SAA has obtained the Joint Finance Committee’s K-12 Omnibus motion.
You can see it here.
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JFC to Approve Special Needs Vouchers
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | May 19, 2015
See the Channel 3000 news article regarding Joint Finance Committee’s plan to approve Special Needs Vouchers.
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JFC Update
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | May 19, 2015
From WisPolitics.com ..
The co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee said they have reached an agreement to provide $200 million more to K-12 education over the biennium than what Gov. Scott Walker proposed.
The money will be used to eliminate the guv’s cut in categorical aids in the first year of the budget while providing a $100 per student boost in the second year.
Republicans are also backing a statewide expansion of the school choice program that would be patterned after the open enrollment program.
Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, declined to put a dollar figure on how much public school districts would lose in state aid through children deciding to enroll in the choice program. Still, they said their plan substantially follows a proposal Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has been studying. A memo of that plan by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau found such a move would be funded by $47.8 million that would have otherwise gone to the districts the students were attending.
The co-chairs said the vouchers would be $7,200 for K-8 and $7,800 for high school students.
More to come…
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