Milwaukee Public Schools Tax & $pending summary

Debra Kuether:
💰 1.47B budget
💰 252M referendum passed (reoccurring for every year thereafter)
💰 503b MPS Foundation funnels millions/district pays for their staff
💰 superintendent’s base contract 302K (with~100K benefits)
🚫MPS has to 60M budget “crisis”.

And:

One thing that isn’t entirely clear is how the district would end up spending more on salary/benefits despite cutting 288 jobs.