Looks to me the cuts they are making, should really be increases or at least maintained. Seems as though, these are the choices this failing guv is forcing on this state. Somewhat like amputating your arms and legs by starting with your fingers and toes. It will take a long time to recover from this bunch of fools, but I have confidence we will.

http://www.gazettextra.com/news/2013/mar...

Please enlighten me. What other article?

wasp said: "You folks believe that there is all this money to be saved. You have been drinking from this low tax trough for years, now the chickens are coming home to roost. Tell me where do you cut? I"m waiting."

wasp, Take a look at the other article, seems there are places to save money.

"solution for finding the money"
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Yep, like getting rid of the loopholes for the rich?

No, Darlene I asked you folks first. You folks believe that there is all this money to be saved. You have been drinking from this low tax trough for years, now the chickens are coming home to roost. Tell me where do you cut? I"m waiting.

wasp2491

Perhaps you could enlighten everyone with your solution for finding the money, and forget the "tax, tax, tax the rich" rhetoric.
Simple solution, cut spending.

The current governor has transferred the spending policies of districts back to where they should be, at the district level. Now, when a school district, city, or county is spending beyond it's means, local officials will have to answer to their constituents for there spending problems. Bring it back to a local issue, where you have direct access to your elected officials. You don't have to wade through the bureaucracy in Madison to find out where the problem is any longer. This is a GREAT thing. This will force local governments to start living within their means, just like most households do.

Handbook & darlene are typical of the sycophants that will constantly defend the failed policies of this guv. The state constantly slides downhill in so many areas, and it it always someone else's fault. By the way harry, have you ever run anything other than your mouth? If so, please enlighten us with your plan to cut expenses, I'm sure it would be interesting.

Ignorance is your Nemesis... Single (gee, I wonder why) with no kids, the schools do nothing for you, huh? Did the community you grew up in support the public schools you attended? Why didn't they just close them all after you graduated? Screw the next generation of the community's children, you got an education, but now that your done and have no kids what possible benefit do schools provide you, everybody else can fend for themselves. Parents should pay for their kids education (except not your parents, right?), all these publically educated taxpayers without kids in schools cannot possibly be expected to keep paying for public schools can they? They don't derive any benefit from an educated workforce do they? Why do my taxes support municipal fire protection - just charge those unfortunate enough to lose their homes in a fire. I certainly don't benefit.

old_badger

Maybe they should resell the land they bought next to the school, since they aren't building.

I am sorry but I know a lot of what goes on in the Milton schools. I have been to many other school districts all over the US. Milton is by far one of the most conservative districts I have seen. There is very little waste. They were smart when GM left and decided not to build a new school. They don't have a lot of extra classes. Milton is extremely efficient at what they do. They provide a great education!
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This problem that we are seeing is a result of Walker and his agenda to kill public education and support private education.
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He got kicked out of school so now he wants to get back at education.

wislady answers to darlene also?

"Or like Darlene the make excuses (Ipads) that just don't add up."

Back to making snide comments, this does not help your credibility.

If you Milton taxpayers didn't see this coming, then something is wrong with you. There have been multiple writings in this paper about how Milton tax money is being spent foolishly. You elected them, elections have consequences.

Being a single Milton resident/taxpayer with no kids in the school system, I derive no benefit other than the "joy" of having my tax money used to help teach school kids through union backed school educrats. I want a waiver to pay less in property taxes.

fear - do us all a favor and take your own advice.

Find things to cut....let them hire me and I'll find things to cut. That's the problem. We have a bunch of bureaucrats pretending to run an organization.

Thats right of course forget about the federal grants that come for technology, right? Maybe you should figure out what is part of the actua budget and what comes from grants.
At a ONE time cost of 450 bucks a piece times 300 Ipads equals $135,000 dollars. Oh yeah and BTW they have had the Ipads for a couple years now, o hardly the reason for the gap.
ITS CALLED SIMPLE MATH, might want to try it, then you might try Algebra. Technology is schools ia a GOOD(GREAT) thing, to be encouraged. Not everyone needs to go to the one room school like darlene went to with Nuttin but Chalk and slate. Although that seems to be their goal in the end anyways.

Sometimes people should just not talk. , because when they do MUSH comes out. Remember we were told when these modest contributions were made all would be good right? Guess not, give them an inch, they will take a mile. Milton teachers have a contract submitting to all these budget cuts and.........here we go again. More from the right wing weirdos that will do anything to get their way and then tell you a different story when things aren't working. Or like Darlene the make excuses (Ipads) that just don't add up.

Right wingers use the word budget as if its some kind of punchline. Repeating the word does NOT make you an authority on the issue. Budget PaulRyan style, in FANTASY LAND.

...Walker will probably tell the B.O.E. to have teachers pay for ALL of their supplies.

Maybe a few more supers on the payroll will fix things.....

It's a good thing they paid $450 per student to get Ipads, before they figured out the budget.

As a Milton property tax payer I would like to say please raise my taxes to help cover the gap created by anti-education conservatives. Milton Teachers signed a contract with all of the "modest" contributions of Act10. Seems the state has hundreds of millions for Venture Capitalists but screw public schools. Shows how dumb these people are, seriously.

Great job, Walker and synchophants. Starve our public schools to fund private vouchers.