Report: Milwaukee Public Schools budget ‘precarious’
The Policy Forum report says the new salaries and added costs for healthcare and other benefits will cost $16 million more next year alone. Those costs will likely only grow over time.
Read Moreby Benjamin Yount | May 27, 2019
The Policy Forum report says the new salaries and added costs for healthcare and other benefits will cost $16 million more next year alone. Those costs will likely only grow over time.
Read Moreby Watchdog.org | Mar 18, 2019
The total for Wisconsin amounted to 9.2 percent of spending, or enough to run the government for 33.6 days, the analysis reported.
Read Moreby George Mitchell | Jan 14, 2019
If transportation fund revenues are adequate — as argued by a minority of legislators — why did they vote for budgets that relied in part on general fund revenue?
Read Moreby George Mitchell | Dec 10, 2018
The state and national media are fully invested in the narrative that Republicans carried out a “coup” in this month’s extraordinary session.
Read Moreby George Mitchell | Nov 2, 2018
WPF reports that DOC’s budget request for 2019-21 “would raise DOC’s total annual spending to $1.37 billion by 2021. The request…highlights Corrections’ status as one of the largest and costliest programs in state government.”
Read Moreby Kevin Binversie | Feb 26, 2018
While it is unlikely the new WPF report will stop any campaign rhetoric about “teacher flight,” it should give the media pause before accepting it at face value.
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