General Aid Estimate Released For 2013-14 School Year
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | July 1, 2013
More than half of Wisconsin public school districts will receive less general aid in the 2013?14 school year than they did for the 2012?13 school year according to estimates released today by the Department of Public Instruction. District aid estimates can be found on the department’s School Financial Services website both alphabetically and by percent change. See July 1st Estimate of General Aid Summary.
See the news release here.
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Walker Signs Budget; Makes a Couple Voucher Vetoes
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | July 1, 2013
Governor Walker used his authority to make 57 vetoes before signing the 2013-15 State Budget into law yesterday. Walker did use his veto authority to scale back a couple of the last minute private school voucher changes that the Assembly dumped into the budget. For more information on the Governor’s vetoes, see Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Coverage.
See Governor Walker’s veto message here.
More information and analysis to come as soon as it becomes available.
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School Choice Records Provision Deserves Veto
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | June 25, 2013
In a Sunday editorial, the Journal Sentinel urged Governor Walker to veto a provision that could inhibit the ability of the public to understand how private voucher schools perform and how they spend public tax dollars.
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State Budget Continues Support for Bad Voucher Schools
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | June 25, 2013
“It’s been an excellent state budget season for lousy voucher schools.”
That is how Alan Borsuk begins his latest Milwaukee Journal Sentinel column in which he implores lawmakers to do more to ensure that taxpayer dollars are taken away from failing voucher schools.
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SAA Issues Veto Letter
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | June 21, 2013
The SAA hand-delivered its letter outlining its budget priorities as the Governor considers his vetoes to the 2013-15 State Budget. In the letter, the SAA outlined its priorities as follows:
“As the SAA examined the provisions of 2013 Assembly Bill 40 as passed by the Legislature, we found items to support as well as several items of major concern. The SAA strongly supports retaining the $150 increase in per pupil resources for public schools in each year of the biennium, even though the fiscal challenges facing school districts and the state’s much improved revenue picture warrants a much higher per pupil increase for schools. The SAA also supports the provision of $10 million in High Cost Transportation Aid, $13.583 million in support for the Educator Effectiveness Evaluation System and $12.066 million in support for Smarter Balanced and ACT Assessments over the biennium, as well as the modified general aid calculation for consolidated districts and the provision of National Forest Income payments to schools.
Our greatest concern is the expansion of private school vouchers in the budget. We also are very concerned about the Income Tax Deduction for Private School Tuition, the restrictions imposed on rehiring Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) annuitants and the freezing of the Community Service (Fund 80) Levy. We ask that you use your veto authority to reshape these provisions in support of Wisconsin schools and Wisconsin school children.”
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