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Friday, July 13, 2012

More State Aid Than Expected for Waukesha School District

Overall decrease of 1.1 percent in equalization aid is anticipated. District had expected five percent decrease.

The Waukesha School District received better-than-expected news regarding how much aid they may get from the state for the 2012-2013 school year, school district officials said at this week's school board meetings. According to recently-released general equalization aid estimates from the state, the district currently anticipates receiving $44,478,392 from the state, only a 1.1 percent decrease from last year’s amount of aid, according to Lauri Clifton, the district’s chief financial officer and director of business services. The district had estimated that they would receive a five percent decrease in aid from last year, Clifton informed the district’s finance committee on Monday night. Last year, the district received a 10 percent …

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Waukesha School District Staring at a $9.5 Million Budget Deficit

Two consecutive years of drops in state aid cause "painful" situation for district, superintendent says.

The Waukesha School Board is beginning work on the 2012-13 budget — work that includes reducing a $9.5 million projected deficit. The district is estimating a “probable” decrease in state aid of 10.9 percent, which represents a 21 percent reduction over the last two years. “That is very painful. We can make some of that up with property taxes, but we’ve got limits there,” Superintendent Todd Gray told the School Board Wednesday. The board will review a very preliminary list of items that could help in reducing the projected deficit. The draft list includes reductions in expenses such as employee benefits, staffing and legal fees, but also estimates increases in revenue from sources such as the district’s virtual school, eAchieve Academy, …

the 'sha guy

10:30 pm on Saturday, March 17, 2012

Wrong again. If you would like to compare teacher salaries with the private sector, compare the public teacher salaries with their counterparts who teach in the private sector at schools. They are not lower. In fact, the vast majority of private school teachers make far less in salary and benefits than the public school teachers do. Private schools do not seem to have difficulty filling their …   more ›

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