Least surprising news of the year:
Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) is facing pressure from the state's teachers union to veto a school funding deal that expands funding for public schools and the state's school choice program. ...
...“Wisconsin is sitting on [a] $7 billion budget surplus and this so-called funding compromise only compromises our students," Peggy Wirtz-Olsen, the president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, said in a statement. "A child graduating from a public school this month has never seen a state funding increase that has kept up with inflation*. Governor Evers, WEAC calls on you to veto these proposals when they come to your desk.”...
Yah, well, sweetie, a public school has never seen a student-enrollment increase in the last 15 years, either, and even Teh Friendlies can't spin it.
Spending, meet chart!
Note well: only 4K enrollment is up, and that's only because 4K is a relatively-new program.
The most expensive students to educate are in high school, and that cohort is down nearly 10% since '07-'08.
At the same time, State school-spend has increased by nearly 50%.
... Per-pupil spending on public PreK-12 schooling in Wisconsin grew from $8,574 per pupil in 2002 to $12,740 in 2020, an increase of 48.6% that was the third smallest rise of any state (after Idaho and Indiana). Over the same time period, the nation’s per-pupil spending grew by 75.2%, from $7,701 to $13,494 (see Figure 1). *These figures are not adjusted for inflation, which rose 43.9% over those years, or somewhat less than the increase in Wisconsin’s per-pupil spending....
Maybe the WEAC shill-lady's 'inflation' claims are.......ahhh.........inaccurate?
No "maybe" about it, friends.
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