The State Budget - Bonus Episode

There has been some remarkably fast movement on the school funding front at the state level – action that we expected to happen in July or later, and the news for South Milwaukee, and many other financially strapped districts is not good. While it was always a long shot to sway legislatures to district requests, the deal reached recently between the legislature and the governor - a former educator - came as a shock, for a lot of reasons. Today we’ll unpack the implications of that deal for South Milwaukee’s finances in the new school year and beyond from Business Services Director Dan Arnold, explore what effects it will have on our students with Christie Gajewski, director of curriculum and instruction, and ask outgoing interim superintendent Jim Shaw his view about school funding as an educator with 50 years of experience in schools.