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Olsen: K-12 Funding Lost Out to Property Tax Relief
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | May 21, 2015
While other Republican legislators tried to convince the public that the under-funding of public schools adopted Wednesday morning by the Joint Finance Committee was either just or the result of state revenues being drained by problems in the Medicaid budget, Sen. Luther Olsen, the chairman of the Senate Education Committee, was spot on when he said it came down to funding public schools or providing the property tax relief that Governor Walker promised. School funding lost.
An Erin Richard’s news article on the topic in this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel included the following:
Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon), the chairman of the Senate Education Committee, acknowledged the budget “doesn’t make it easier to run a school district.”
Olsen said there wasn’t enough money to fund property tax cuts that Walker promised and also fund the public education system.
“Something has to give and that’s what gave,” Olsen said Wednesday.
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