Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker took his message of investing in student success to the Gibraltar School District in Fish Creek and discussed the effort to provide additional sparsity aid and a low revenue ceiling increase for rural schools during a visit to Door County Thursday. The governor says the proposed funding is in addition to the state budget’s $11.5 billion dollar investment in K-12 education…
Governor Walker said he enjoyed sharing anecdotes with Gibraltar students about his personal Door County connection…
The legislation Walker is touting increases sparsity aid for districts like Gibraltar by $6.4 million next school school year and provides an increase of $100 per pupil for districts that currently qualify for sparsity aid.