MADISON, WI (WRN) – Governor Scott Walker’s state budget includes an increase in aid for schools…if they are fully compliant with Act 10.
That condition could keep some districts from being able to access more than 400-dollars in new per student funding.
State Superintendent Tony Evers says not all districts require teachers to pay the full 12-percent in to their health insurance benefits that the collective bargaining law allowed.
“There may be districts that make cuts in other areas in order to continue to provide that level of coverage to their employees”
Walker says the plan is intended to make sure all of the new funding ends up in the classroom.
“These record new numbers we’re putting into education, we want to make sure they’re being spent in the classroom improving student success”
Madison is one district the requirement would effect for certain. It’s unclear how many others are not fully complying with Act 10.
