State Funding for Public Schools to See Major Cuts
School districts throughout the Badger State, especially those in Milwaukee and surrounding communities, will be affected by the legislature’s decision to reduce state funding for public schools. As a result of this decision, local communities will surely increase property taxes in order to fund their educational institutions. On July 2, 2010, recently-elected State Superintendent of [...]
Sales Tax Increase Not a Good Solution to Education Crisis
Earlier this week, the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools kicked off a campaign to increase the state sales tax by one cent in order to provide more funding to Wisconsin’s deteriorating public school system. Two other states, Arizona and Kansas, passed similar sales tax increases earlier this year and claim that their public schools are [...]
