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Fitzgerald: GOP Could Use “Hammer” on MPS
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | July 1, 2016
From WisPolitics.com ..
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald is warning GOP lawmakers could use the “hammer” of cutting funding to Milwaukee Public Schools if its leadership continues to resist attempts to reform the district.
Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said Republicans were shocked this week at the resignation of Demond Means as commissioner of the Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program. Fitzgerald said that then turned to anger over resistance to embrace the state law, which lets the county exec appoint someone to oversee a turnaround program for failing Milwaukee schools that pulls them away from MPS oversight.
Fitzgerald predicted some Republicans will “double down” on efforts to reform MPS, noting it is difficult for some lawmakers to continue sending money to the district if it will not cooperate on efforts to improve school performance.
“That’s hard for those individual legislators to say, ‘Yeah I’m going to send more and more money to MPS, even though they’re resisting some of the reforms,'” Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, is slated to appear on “UpFront with Mike Gousha” this weekend and made the comments on the OSPP program as part of a web extra that was posted to WISN-TV’s website today.
An MPS spokesman did not immediately have a comment on Fitzgerald’s remarks.
See Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Coverage here.
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