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In this episode:
The correct tax impact of our two referenda Does Open Enrollment "solve MKE's problems?" School Choice and (State-)Constitutional Promises Resident Enrollment Projections and National Population DeclineShow notes!
Comprehensive revenue (select district from dropdown)
(Also, if we WERE interested in a low-cost, politically-inexpensive ways to do OE, check out McFarland's figures in rows 94 and 99 -- the power of virtual charters.)T2075 Resource Book (see chapter 2)
MKE-area school quality/demographic map (for all schools that report to DPI)
MDR demographic change report
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In this episode:
The recent "merger" revelation and what it means The history of school district boundaries and the things they separate How and why Open Enrollment and Chapter 220 were created What we have gained from OE over the years and what we hope to gain by drawing it downShow notes:
WSD merger stuff
Special school board meeting to release legal opinion
WISN-12 coverage and interviews
The legal opinion itself
Tosa 2075 Task Force materials
Resource booklet
Open Enrollment Data Review slide deck
Policies brief
Task Force final report
State legislative and DPI resources
LFB explanation of Open Enrollment history and processes
DPI enrollment, demographic, and discipline datasets
Histories of general school choice dynamics in MKE/WI come from here:
John Witte, The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program (Princeton UP, 2001).
Robert Asen, Democracy, Deliberation, and Education (Penn State UP, 2015)
Noliwe Rooks, Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education (The New Press, 2020).
Jack Dougherty, More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black Education Reform in Milwaukee (U of North Carolina Press, 2004).
General history of spatial, educational, and economic segregation in the urban north
Shep Melnick, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality (U of Chicago Press, 2023)
Ansley Erickson, Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits (U of Chicago Press, 2017).
Carla Shedd, Unequal City: Race, Schools, and the Perception of Injustice (Russell Sage Foundation, 2015)
Savannah Shange, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco (Duke University Press, 2020).
Mike Amezcua, Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification (U of Chicago Press, 2023).
Jonathan Rosa, Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Andrew Kahrl, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U of Chicago Press, 2024)
Kevin Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton University Press, 2005).
Erica Frankenberg and Gary Orfield, eds, The Resegregation of Suburban Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2012).
Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime (Harvard University Press, 2016).
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (U of North Carolina Press, 2019).
Elizabeth Popp Berman, Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy (Princeton University Press, 2022).
Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Liveright Publishing, 2017).
Matt Kelly, Dividing the Public (Cornell University Press, 2024).
Jerald Podair, The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis (Yale UP, 2002)
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In this episode:
WSD's long-range facilities plan How and why junior highs emerged How and why middle schools replaced them What happened when K-8 models became popular Will 6th graders do okay in elementary schools? What does the research say about 7-12 models?Contact me with questions!
References/Bibliography (or: my browser tabs for the last two weeks)
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In this episode:
Important background for interpreting educational research How we deal with value pluralism and fundamental uncertainty How educational research responds to and provokes anxiety and moralizing How we can avoid enmity and grift as we argue about researchContact me!
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In which an expert on the history of education finance talks about the evolution of school funding, the different options that we've seen over time, and the various advantages and drawbacks of each.
LINKS:
Matt's book, Dividing the Public
Boston Globe piece on conservative school boards in WI
Arrowhead Union HS District's testimony to legislature.
On how districts' receiving Covid funding is like "winning the lottery."
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In this episode:
More details on revenue limits and state aid Explaining Tosa's increase in state aid next year Statewide impacts from Milwaukee's referendum Special education funding and revenue limitsLINKS
contact me!
Wisconsin Uniform Financial Accounting Requirements
legislative fiscal bureau brief on revenue limits
2023-2024 July 1st estimate
2024-2025 July 1st estimate
legislative fiscal bureau's memo on MKE's referendum
legislative fiscal bureau's brief on state aid
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In which we talk about the specifics of the referendum questions we'll see on our ballots in November and the district's plans relating to the proposed funding. With additional complaints about state-level policy that pits housing affordability against school funding and some wonkery about the difference between recurring and non-recurring referenda.
*Ugh, I called Fund 46 "Fund 64" at one point. That's an error.
References:
The referendum questions and tax calculator.
The district's long-range facilities plan.
Wisconsin districts that have created a Fund 46
The administration's 48.4m operating budget plan.
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In November 2024, voters in our leafy suburb of Milwaukee will join the majority of Wisconsin school districts in having to approve a sizable local tax levy or else suffer draconian cuts to its public schools.
This series looks at how we got here and what we can do about it, beginning with voting on the referendum.Hosted by: Derek Gottlieb (derekgottliebphd.com)
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In which we cover the fundamentals of the Wauwatosa School District budget situation, of school finance in Wisconsin as a whole, of property tax and referendum mechanisms, and of revenue-limit legislation.
LINKS to cited sources:
General WI Educational Funding
State Aid to WI School Districts (source: Legislature pub)
Referenda-use in Wisconsin (Forward Analytics)
Revenue Limits -> Student Outcomes (Rothstein report)
Referendum Impacts on Educational Outcomes (Am. Econ. Journal)
DPI's revenue-limit calculator (DPI)
Local District Descriptive Stats (from NCES for 22-23)
Wauwatosa
Beloit
Campbellspot
Lomira
Kewaskum
Tosa 2075 Task Force information
June 3rd presentation/discussion with the Board (video)
Final Report