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WI Joint Finance Committee hosts listening session on proposed budget
WI Joint Finance Committee hosts listening session on proposed budget
The Joint Finance Committee has one goal during Friday’s session – listen to the public’s concerns about the proposed state budget. This first listening session played out at UW-Whitewater.
WHITEWATER, Wis. - The Joint Finance Committee has one goal during Friday’s session – listen to the public’s concerns about the proposed state budget. This first listening session played out at UW-Whitewater.
For seven hours, members of the Joint Finance Committee heard from people who’ve traveled to Whitewater from across Wisconsin to give their input on the $91 billion proposed state budget.
Deborah Kerr, one of two candidates competing to lead the state Department of Public Instruction, said she would move or rehire most of the agency s over 400 employees away from Madison and into offices around the state.
“Under DPI’s current model, agency staff are plucked from the Madison area, and that’s not inclusive of any of the diversity and the needs of our Wisconsin children,” Kerr said at a press conference Wednesday in Milwaukee.
Kerr, former superintendent of Brown Deer schools, said she would perform an equity audit of DPI staff and look to hire new staff who live in communities outside of Madison, possibly resulting in terminations of some current employees. Kerr, who lives in Caledonia, would not move to Madison and would work at offices around the state.
Parents and educators around the state were quick to applaud for Governor
“Wisconsin desperately needs to invest responsibly in closing our gaps and opening up opportunities for our kids and our communities,” said
Heather DuBois Bourenane, Executive Director of Wisconsin Public Education Network. “Governor Evers has found a way to do that with a budget that meets our priority needs first, and shows that we can afford to do right by our kids. Which is a good thing, because this pandemic has proven we can’t afford not to. Addressing mental health needs and meeting the state’s 2/3 funding obligation, while prioritizing the needs of rural students, students in poverty, students with disabilities and English Language Learners is exactly what our school districts need to plan for and meet our children’s pandemic needs.”
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