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Survey finds (WI) school districts have taken hits; Walker touts reforms
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| Contributor | Ashley |
| Last Edited | Ashley Nov 10, 2011 02:10pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Tom Tolan |
| Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| News Date | Thursday, November 10, 2011 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A new survey of the majority of the state's school districts shows many of them were forced to make staff reductions and increase class sizes as a result of school aid cuts in Gov. Scott Walker's state budget, according to the state Department of Public Instruction and a school administrators association.
But the governor's office, briefed Wednesday afternoon on the survey to be announced at a Thursday news conference, says the Walker administration's reforms are working and points out that the majority of teacher layoffs have been in districts that didn't adopt the reforms - notably in Milwaukee, Kenosha and Janesville.
The survey, by the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators, was conducted in the early fall of the current school year, after the state Legislature passed a two-year budget that trimmed $749 million in aid to public school districts, in addition to reductions in the limits of what districts can levy in property taxes. |
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