Governor Scott Walker is visiting schools in Wausaukee, Cadott, and Belmont today to announce his support for new legislation to
increase Sparsity Aid for rural schools, an idea he championed earlier this year.
The task force put forward a number of prudent ideas, including
increasing sparsity aid to rural districts and creating a student loan forgiveness program for new teachers who choose to teach in rural Wisconsin.
Not exact matches
«The savings
increase with scale because we are exploiting the inherent
sparsity in big data,» he said.
There will be extra funding for «
sparsity», such as rural areas and small schools, places with a high level of mobility in its school population and funding where there are sharp
increases in pupil numbers.
Under the bill, the appropriation for
sparsity aid would be
increased by $ 6.5 million in 2019.
Delete $ 100
increase per pupil in
sparsity aid, and instead provide $ 100 per pupil for districts with between 745 - 1,000 students.
Governor Walker said the proposed $ 200
increase in per pupil aid matches what Dr. Tony Evers, the newly re-elected state superintendent, asked for and does not include
sparsity aid that will be given to rural school districts.
Increases to
sparsity aid and the low revenue ceiling were in my budgets, and I am pleased to see them considered after the governor's veto cast doubt on their future,» Evers said.
Three Lakes Board member Terry McCloskey thanked lawmakers for the funding
increases they provided in the recently completed legislative session and urged the Commission to distinguish between «programmatic»
sparsity and «geographic»
sparsity.
I am disappointed that neither revenue limit relief for low - spending districts nor an
increase / expansion of
sparsity aid were included in the final budget.
In addition to the squeeze on basic funding, in a shameless attack on small rural schools, the DfE has reduced the
sparsity factor by nearly 50 % below the minimum; all to fund the
increases for disadvantaged pupils.