Nonetheless, Ald. Tag Evers its all J’accuse!
“We have defunded our schools — 90% of our black and brown students are not reading at grade level — and then used police to keep order.”
Madison has “defunded our schools”? Since when? On an absolute dollar basis, the State of Wisconsin has never shoveled more money at K-12 education. Madison taxpayers approve extra-spending referenda almost every other election.
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Madison school property taxes are UP 37% since 2012,
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While 4K-12 enrollment is down 1.6% from 2014-15.
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Total expenditures (excluding construction fund): is UP 17.0% during the same period.
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The proposed school budget for next year increases per pupil spending 19.0% from 2014-15. (Cost of living is up 10% during that time.)
Madison’s taxpayer supported K-12 school district, despite spending far more than most, has long tolerated disastrous reading results.
My Question to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Teacher Mulligans and our Disastrous Reading Results
“An emphasis on adult employment”
Wisconsin Public Policy Forum Madison School District Report[PDF]
Booked, but can’t read (Madison): functional literacy, National citizenship and the new face of Dred Scott in the age of mass incarceration