Wisconsin state spending on education has increased slightly, according to a report from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, which showed an approximately 1 percent increase in fiscal support for total school costs.
State's coverage of effective costs rests at 62.7 percent, up from 62.3 percent in 2014 and 62 percent in 2013.
The proportion of fiscal support provided varies
There has been a sharp decline in state support for education in the past several years.
“From 1996-'97 to 2002-'03, the state had
Funding remained relatively stagnant until the Walker administration, when the legislature’s 2012 budget enacted "the biggest cuts to education in our state's history,” according to a Politifact report. “The $1.2 billion in reductions included $792 million in direct state aid to
These cuts amounted to a 6.2 percent decline in state funding for education. Wisconsin public schools receive 48 percent of support from state money, which was the primary area of reduction. Another 44 percent is provided by local funding that has stagnated due to a freeze in property tax rates. The remaining 8 percent of schools’ budgets is provided by federal funding.
