While You Were Sleeping: What Happened to Wisconsin Public Schools

[snacker]

"The budget includes the worst of what thousands of parents, school board members, administrators, advocacy groups, and grassroots local citizens spoke out against in droves at the hearings and in writing over the past months. In the guise of giving an increase to the public school budget, it creates a new, complicated, confusing & unwanted way of "accounting" for private voucher school students that allows voucher money to be laundered through the public school budget. Districts that do not have voucher schools will lose even more money than they already do, and the voucher money will continue to come "off the top" as the program is expanded statewide. All over the state, communities will be forced to go to referendum and raise taxes to fund local schools. Many of these referenda will fail. The JFC voted against its constitutional obligation to fund public education at a level that allows uniform instruction at all schools. We are a state of haves and have-nots, and the "haves" got a shiny new gift last night."

http://monologuesofdissent.blogspot.com/2015/05/while-you-were-sleeping-what-happened.html


The hits just keep coming...

[yourout]

1. And....

Home schooled kids will be allowed to participate in local High School atheletics.(Horrible Idea)

Non degreed people will be allowed to teach certain courses.

Big increase in private school vouchers.

All of this on top of proposed increases for insurance Co-pays for state workers(Teachers).

It will take decades to undo the damage done over the last 5 years.

[GitRDun]

2. I just keep wondering

how much pain needs to be inflicted before the general public wakes up and stops voting these idiots in.

I do feel sorry for Wisconsinites (my youngest goes to UW Madison), but how do they justify voting in Walker again and again. They voted in a tea bag senator as well.

I wish I had the answer.