Wisconsin Public Schools to Get Fraction of What Evers Wants

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin public schools would receive $150 million more in funding over two years under the Republican budget approved by a legislative committee.

That is less than 10% of the $1.6 billion that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proposed.

It was not immediately clear Thursday if the GOP plan would spend enough to ensure that Wisconsin wouldn’t lose at least some of the $2.6 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding it’s slated to receive.

Of that amount, $1.5 billion was approved under the American Rescue Plan that President Joe Biden signed in March.

That law requires the state to spend $387 million on K-12 schools to keep the money.