K-12 Education

LARGEST INCREASE IN SPECIAL EDUCATION REIMBURSEMENT EVER!

 

  • Highest special education reimbursement since the 1992-93 school year
    • 90% High-cost special education reimbursement
    • 45% special education reimbursement
  • Release of literacy funding after Governor Evers' illegal veto delayed new science-based programming
  • More than $1,000 increase to the choice/charter payment amounts over the biennium 
  • $30 million for school-based mental health
  • $200,000 for the Special Olympics
  • $3 million for public libraries
  • $500,000 for recovery high schools
  • $500,000 for the Reading Corps 

                        

     

              

                   

                

   

Senator Marklein at River Ridge School with Mrs. Kuenster's 3rd Grade Class

Senator Marklein at River Ridge School with Mrs. Kuenster's 3rd Grade Class

                          

Senator Quinn Reading to Students at Reach Out and Read Event

Senator Quinn Reading to Students at Reach Out and Read Event