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MANITOWOC - Despite passing a $4.3 million referendum this spring, the Manitowoc Public School District is still looking to pare down its spending.
According to Superintendent Mark Holzman, the district wants to reduce the schools’ yearly budget by $1.3 million over the next three years. In October, the Manitowoc School Board passed an $81.2 million budget for the 2020-21 year.
“We have been using fund balance for the past two years to balance our budget, and that is not a fiscally sound way to continue to maintain our budget, nor is it a good long-range plan,” he told the Herald Times Reporter. “So we want to reduce about $1.3 million over the next three years from our operating budget so that we’re not relying on fund balance or our savings account to balance our budget.”
MANITOWOC - Stacey Soeldner and Collin Braunel will join incumbents Kerry Trask and Lisa Johnston on the Manitowoc School Board after being voted in during Tuesday s election.
The unofficial final tally showed Soeldner with 4,595 votes, Trask with 4,145 votes, Braunel with 3,412 votes and Johnston with 3,242 votes. Those who did not make it on the board were Aaron Erdman, Timothy Reis, Rhonda Neumann and Richard Nitsch, who had 3,063, 2,794, 2,523 and 2,507 votes, respectively.
The results will not be finalized until after the canvassing boards confirm the counts later this week.
A referendum for an additional $4.3 million in spending for the Manitowoc Public School District was approved Tuesday 4,812 voted yes and 3,337 voted no.
Last modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 11.51 EDT
It was the Monday morning before Thanksgiving when a police officer showed up on Tracie Higginsâs doorstep and handed a $439 fine to her teenage son for missing too many days of remote school during the pandemic.
But the bulk of her son Markâs repeated absences, the Wisconsin mother protested, were the result of faulty school technology, including a Chromebook that wouldnât charge. Debra Pratt, also of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, faced a similar situation this school year with her son Jason, who was fined for racking up 28 absences that the school district marked as unexcused â including the same day in late September that he tested positive for Covid-19.
Dec 17, 2020 8:00 AMLocal News UPDATE 11:30 AM 12/17/2020
We received the following screenshots from a parent, which were posted in a group on Facebook dedicated to parents of students in the MPSD. Our researcher is not a part of that group, therefore we were not able to see them.
One comment reads as, “Definitely take photos!! We need to get Holzman and many of the school board members out!! They are doing nothing for our kids education. Only looking out for the teachers and their supposable scaredness.”
Another comments, “I’ve heard rumors of teachers that don’t want to return to school being seen at local taverns… …we need to start publicizing all of their hypocrisy. Shine the spotlight on the hypocrites to help put the pressure on.”