DPI wants to use a smaller pot of federal COVID-19 funds to reward districts that provided in-person instruction during the pandemic. This comes after the U.S. Department of Education rejected an earlier proposal from GOP lawmakers to use more of
Incoming Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer, D-Racine, announced this afternoon she is appointing outgoing Rep. Beth Meyers, D-Ashland, to the Joint Finance Committee. Meyers, who announced last week she won’t seek reelection this fall, fills Neubauer’s spot on the committee
The Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously today to sign off on legislation that would direct DATCP and WEDC to create a plan to increase Wisconsin’s agricultural exports 25 percent by mid-2026. SB 325 has already passed the Senate. But the
The Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously today to release $400,000 over the next two years to DATCP for meat processor grants. The budget approved this summer created the meat processor grant program and put the money into the committee’s appropriation
State tax collections continued to exceed expectations in the 2020-21 fiscal year as the state took in $319 million more than what the Legislative Fiscal Bureau had projected just two months ago. In June, LFB had anticipated $19.25 billion in
Gov. Tony Evers OK’d a more than $2 billion income tax cut that reduces one of Wisconsin’s three brackets as he largely signed off on the budget that Republicans sent him last week. But he nixed a provision to use
Wisconsin wouldn’t qualify for some $2.2 billion in federal aid for K-12 education if Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the GOP-authored budget in full and Capitol leaders failed to pass a new one, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau says. The LFB memo
The state Assembly this afternoon kicked off debate on the state budget by shooting down a Dem amendment to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The amendment, which mirrored the proposal Gov. Tony Evers put in his budget, was
The owner of a mythical median-valued home in Wisconsin would see a smaller property tax bill under the version of the budget the Joint Finance Committee approved last week vs. the one Gov. Tony Evers proposed, according to the Legislative
The state would face a structural deficit of $286 million for the next biennium under the budget the Joint Finance Committee approved, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. That would be one of the smallest structural deficits over the past
