During his State of the State address, Gov. Scott Walker touted “historic” investments to K-12 funding in Wisconsin’s 2017-19 budget. However, state Sen. Janet Bewley, D-Ashland, immediately pushed back against Walker’s claim, decrying the budget’s “broken promises” to one particular area of education funding — sparsity aid — which benefits small rural school districts. “We lost more in sparsity aid and more in revenue authority because of the changes to the budget. The current plan to ‘make up for’ those broken promises costs our schools one full year and at least two-thirds of the sparsity aid that had been promised,” Bewley said in a statement on Jan. 24. What is sparsity aid? 
Legislature’s ‘make-up’ funding would still fall short, Sen. Janet Bewley claims. We check her math.
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