“Our governor cut $1.6B from education is (sic) his first budget, now is putting back $638 million. That’s not progress, it’s an insult,” Mahlon Mitchell, Democratic candidate for governor and president of the state firefighters union, said in a March 17 tweet. We decided to check how much aid for K-12 education was cut in Gov. Scott Walker’s first budget and how much was added to the current budget. Walker proposed an increase of $649 million in education spending in the 2017-18 school year. However, the Legislature approved a budget that brings the boost down to $639 million, by spending less than what Walker proposed on rural schools and high-performing Milwaukee schools. 
Did Gov. Scott Walker add $638 million more in K-12 spending to the current budget?
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