Doyle Uses Schools As Lever; He Pushes Lawmakers to Agree On Budget so Districts Can Settle Spending Plans
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › August 29, 2007
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Aiming to turn up the heat on legislators, Gov. Jim Doyle said Monday that while negotiations move slowly on a long-overdue state budget, schools across Wisconsin are facing tremendous uncertainty because they don't know how much money they will have to spend in the school year that is getting under way.
"It is time for the grown-ups to emerge here, and it is time for the game-playing to stop," the Democrat said in an appearance at Wauwatosa West High School.See the full content of this document
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Doyle Uses Schools As Lever; He Pushes Lawmakers to Agree On Budget so Districts Can Settle Spending Plans
Superintendents of many of the largest Milwaukee-area school districts literally stood behind Doyle as he spoke.
Several followed his comments with descriptions of how much they had cut in recent years from education programs, and how much m...See the full content of this document
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