July 26, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Tunisia: Politics: State Government: Green Bay Press Gazette: Schools win big in Doyle budget
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July 26, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Tunisia: Politics: State Government: Green Bay Press Gazette: Schools win big in Doyle budget
Schools win big in Doyle budget
Gov. Jim Doyle signed a state budget Monday that pleased area educators, disappointed Green Bay city planners and agitated a leading lawmaker. Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and his wife served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Tunisia in the 1960's.
Schools win big in Doyle budget
Schools win big in Doyle budget
Budget summary
By Karen Lincoln Michel
Press-Gazette Madison bureau kmichel@greenbaypressgazette.com
MADISON — Gov. Jim Doyle signed a state budget Monday that pleased area educators, disappointed Green Bay city planners and agitated a leading lawmaker.
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The $52.9 billion package increases school aid by $861 million and brings the K-12 education allocation closer to the state-mandated two-thirds funding formula; cuts a $4.2 million planning grant for the downtown Green Bay waterfront redevelopment project by one-third; and provides a 2 percent property-tax freeze and other cuts that Assembly Majority Leader John Gard says “hurts Wisconsin taxpayers” and residents.
Gard, R-Peshtigo, said that although an override by two-thirds of the Legislature is unlikely, he hasn’t ruled it out.
Green Bay Schools Superintendent Daniel Nerad said the district will not be forced to make deep cuts to programs as it would have under the Legislature’s budget, which also would have resulted in a per-pupil increase of $120 in the 2005-06 school year and $100 in the 2006-07 school year. Instead, the per-student increase will be $248 in the first year and $252 in the second year.
“We’re still going to have to exercise some decisions during our budget process, but it will not require substantial reductions, which were a major concern to us,” said Nerad. “We’re very pleased by that.”
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