Superintendents of Wisconsin’s five largest school districts and other education leaders are urging lawmakers to return to the table after a measure that would have sent millions of dollars to schools died in the state Senate on May 13.
The $1.8 billion deal, brokered by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican legislative leaders, would have directed more than $617 million in funding to the state’s schools, with about half going toward special education reimbursement and the other half toward offsetting property taxes by increasing general school aids.
Superintendents in Milwaukee, Madison, Kenosha, Racine and Green Bay said in a joint statement May 15 that “the compromise proposed by Gov. Evers and Republican leadership represented meaningful progress,” and the bill would have been “a step in the right direction.”
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