Wisconsin Governor's 2007 Budget Address

Jim Doyle:

First and foremost, this budget maintains the state's commitment to fund two-thirds of the cost of our kids' education.

Especially when you consider how much more it costs just to fuel the busses and heat the schools, the funding I'm providing is hardly extravagant. Schools will have a modest, 3 percent increase to keep up with inflation - so that our kids continue to get a great education.

Second, we should make a major new investment in school breakfast, four-year-old kindergarten, and smaller class sizes from kindergarten through third grade ... because getting the right start is so critical to our kids' education.

Third, we must reform the school financing formula to make it fairer, more flexible, and more focused on the needs of our kids.

We can start by helping rural districts with transportation costs, providing relief to schools with declining enrollment, and continuing to address the disparity faced by our lowest spending districts.

WisPolitics budget blog.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 13, 2007 10:09 PM
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