Wisconsin communities are digging deeper than ever to fund schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : " At the national level, defenders of public education got a boost when Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris picked former teacher and public school booster Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate over private-school voucher advocate Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
39% : U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona kicked off a back-to-school bus tour in Green Bay this week, writing a tough opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in which he took Wisconsin's powerful "school choice" lobby to task for promoting a system that takes public money away from public schools -- which serve all children -- to pay private school tuition at religious and other private schools that simply reject kids they don't want to educate.
36% : "People are getting organized and fighting back against attacks on public schools, privatization scams and threats to public school funding.

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