Questions For Candidates
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 14, 2014
With Election Day just three weeks away, the SAA wanted to provide members with a few questions about public education that voters should ask of candidates for state office before entering the voting booth on November 4th. We are providing these questions in the body of a sample op-ed piece.
Feel free to use this op-ed piece and to modify it for your own use.
Thanks for listening. And, thanks for all you do on behalf of Wisconsin public school children.
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Wistax on School Fund Balances
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 14, 2014
?A couple weeks ago, Wistax released an issue of its newsletter, Focus?, devoted to a look at school fund balances. Given the political interest generated by the UW System fund balance controversy, it is surprising that the Wistax piece received such limited media attention.
You might recall that the SAA released two school fund balance documents for SAA members in its August 25, 2014 blog post. In their newsletter, Wistax makes many of the same major points that the SAA did in its work on school fund balances.
I want to leave you with an excerpt from the final section of the Wistax newsletter:
“. . . it is fair to say that many Wisconsin school districts have been building reserves to ensure future fiscal stability at a time of spotty economic recovery, divisive partisan politics, and boom-bust state budgeting. Ironically, the source of the latter is state government’s inability for years to build any meaningful budget reserves.”
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State Paid $139 Million to Terminated Voucher Schools Since 2004
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 13, 2014
?I found this article by Molly Beck of the Wisconsin State Journal to be an interesting look at the millions of dollars the state wasted on voucher schools that have since been terminated from the program.
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Grassroots Anti-Voucher Group to Work in Northern Wisconsin
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 7, 2014
A grassroots coalition, “NoVouchers“, has announced its volunteer members will be working in rural communities in Northern Wisconsin to stop the expansion of taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools .
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AP, SAT Results Strong
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 7, 2014
??The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) announced today that preliminary data from the Advanced Placement (AP) program showed an increase in the number of state students participating in the program and solid overall results. The AP information comes with state and national SAT scores, where Wisconsin’s 2014 graduates posted strong results, outpacing students in the national cohort by more than 90 points on the college admissions exams.
For more information see DPI News Release here.
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