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Once every two years, Wisconsin elected officials do something families across the state have to do all the time: They set a budget. Passing a spending blueprint is the focal point of the legislative ...
and parents of students with disabilities are pushing lawmakers to increase funding in the 2025-27 state budget. School districts in Wisconsin are struggling to keep up with special education ...
The real cost of universal vouchers in Arizona in 2023-24 was $738 million. The result: a huge budget deficit and significant cuts to public schools. Wisconsin, which launched the first school voucher ...
Many residents also called for increased special education funding. The Legislature reimbursed a third of Wisconsin school districts’ special education costs in the 2023-25 state budget. Private ...
The spending approved in the budget affects hundreds of programs throughout Wisconsin, from driver's education grants to the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program to employment services in prisons to ...
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says that budget discussions are “on pause” until Republican leadership hears back from Gov. Tony Evers about an in-person meeting ...
Wisconsin's Joint Finance Committee will meet Thursday to start crafting the new two-year budget. The committee plans to remove much of the governor's policy from the budget bill and introduce GOP ...
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Joint Committee on Finance took 612 items out of Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal Thursday, including Medicaid expansion in the state, department creations and tax ...
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced his state budget proposal for the 2023-2025 period Feb. 15, 2023. In this budget, Evers proposed many ideas that will be voted on in the upcoming months. The ...
Republicans argue that most of the state’s roughly $4 billion surplus should be returned as tax cuts rather than used to support spending on K-12 schools, the University of Wisconsin and other state ...