Despite having a record amount of federal money to spend on their own schools, Wisconsin’s largest school districts are pushing state lawmakers to find more money for public education.
Superintendents at the state’s five largest school districts, Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, and Racine, all wrote a letter to the legislature’s budget-writing panel yesterday demanding more state spending. The schools worry that without more state money, Wisconsin could miss-out on two-billion-dollars in federal money. State Rep. Mark Born, who is helping to write the state budget, says lawmakers have set aside enough money to meet the federal requirements. The schools all say their post-coronavirus recovery plans have been put on hold because of the state budget.
