Milwaukee voters in April 2024 approved a referendum to allow MPS to increase its revenue limits by $252 million over four years after the district warned it faced a $200 million shortfall for the 2024-25 fiscal year.
Cassellius said she spent the summer ensuring all 50 of the district’s schools built before 1950 were cleared of lead issues, which the district announced Friday.
The district recently recouped roughly $33 million from the Department of Public Instruction after a financial crisis led to missed deadlines and accounting errors.
“We have been working on three streams of work at our finance division,” Cassellius said. “The first was just to finish that funding year ’24 audit. We were behind on that. We were missing deadlines.