Wisconsin Legislative Outlook, 2007
A legislative special committee, the Finance Adequacy Task Force is studying potential changes in the school funding formula, with some special attention to the needs and circumstances of rural schools. Also look for efforts to expand the state’s pre-K program and for a fight over a 1993 law that limited property tax on homes, collective bargaining rights of teacher unions, and required the state to pay 66% of public school costs. Governor Jim Doyle (D) will seek increased spending on the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education program, which reduces class sizes in early grades, expansion of preschool programs for four year olds, and increased spending on special education and transportation costs for local schools.