school funding

Report: MPS to boost pay 8% partially by expecting many positions to be vacant

Emily Files

With a teacher shortage, the district expects it won’t be able to fill many positions. It’s using the savings from those projected vacancies to help pay for an 8% cost of living salary increase and other expenses.

Mourners visit a memorial outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in 2020, on the two-year anniversary of the Parkland shootings.

Kaul, parent of Parkland school shooting victim campaign for school safety funding in state budget

Eddie Morales

Attorney General Josh Kaul and Max Schachter are campaigning for $2.2 million in the state’s budget for the Office of School Safety. Schachter's 14-year-old son, Alex, died in the Parkland school shooting tragedy in 2018.

Gov. Evers at an MPS back-to-school event in 2022.

Evers wants a $2.6 billion school funding increase. Here are some highlights from the plan

Emily Files

The governor wants the state to use some of its $7 billion surplus to increase school funding by a record $2.6 billion over the next two fiscal years.

Nearly 40% of student loan payers are helping someone else pay off their student loans, a new study found.

Wisconsin law firm sues to block student loan forgiveness

The Associated Press

A conservative Wisconsin law firm is suing to stop federal student loan forgiveness, saying President Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness plan is discriminatory and amounts to taxation without representation.

MPS and city officials, along with members of Common Ground, participate in a groundbreaking ceremony at Washington High School.

2 MPS high schools get major athletic upgrades, thanks to federal pandemic funding and private donations

Emily Files

Reagan High School is getting a new athletic field and science wing. Washington High School is getting a new track and field. Both projects required private donations, but were pushed across the finish line by federal funds.

Gov. Evers announced his 2023-25 education budget priorities at MPS's Academy of Accelerated Learning.

As MPS welcomes back students, Evers announces push for $2 billion school funding increase

Emily Files

The big-ticket items in Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ $2 billion education spending proposal include $860 million in per-pupil funding and $750 million in special education aid.

Student disembark from a Milwaukee Public Schools bus.

Gov. Evers funnels $90 million in federal funding to public schools, to help offset inflation costs

Emily Files

Evers, who is running for reelection, announced Tuesday he’s directing more one-time federal aid to public schools.

A bus drops off students at an MPS back-to-school welcome event.

Report: Wisconsin's growth in K-12 spending lags most other states

Emily Files

Wisconsin used to be one of the states that spent the most on K-12 schools. By 2020, that changed.

The Paris J1 School District in rural Kenosha County has one K-8 school serving 280 students. Paris leaders turned down more than $320,000 in federal pandemic aid meant to help with students' academic recovery.

Kenosha County school district is the only one in the state to turn down federal pandemic aid

Emily Files

The Paris School District in rural southeastern Wisconsin declined about $320,000 in federal funding. Experts haven't heard of any other district in the country turning down the aid.

South Milwaukee School District business manager Blaise Paul and Zilber LTD executive John Kersey spoke at press conference at the Riverside Theater calling for increased school funding.

Milwaukee education, business leaders say some of state budget surplus should go to schools

Emily Files

A coalition of Milwaukee groups that are often at odds are campaigning together for state lawmakers to spend some of Wisconsin’s $4 billion surplus on schools.