A report released Wednesday by the Department of Public Instruction provides the best data yet on the effects to schools of the changes made in the budget repair and biennial budget bills. As the department’s press release noted, 73 percent of Wisconsin’s school districts cut teachers during the 2011-12 school year. In response to sharply reduced aid and deep cuts in the caps on state and local revenue, schools cut 2,312 full-time positions, including 1,446 teachers (-2.3%).
Read more in today’s Wisconsin Budget Project Blog post about the cuts and the Governor’s continued insistence that the “tools” provided to school districts are working.
Jon Peacock