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What are school district revenue caps? In 1993, Wisconsin passed legislation to control school costs and reduce property taxes. To accomplish these purposes, the amount of revenue that districts can raise from one year to the next is limited. Districts are allowed to increase per pupil expenditures from year-to-year by a specified amount. Over the years, these education caps have forced school districts to cut programs and lay off staff, severely damaging the quality of education they can provide for students. In some districts, the caps have forced schools to close and have even threatened to force the closing of entire school districts. |
Two Rivers cuts 'eroding our programs' [4/9/08]
KMUC school districts 'struggling to survive' [4/9/08]
School referendums: 30 pass, 31 fail [4/3/08]
Revenue caps threaten arts education [3/20/08] 
Kaukauna schools face drastic cuts [2/1/08]
Milwaukee educators testify for school funding reform [11/16/07]
Education is an investment in state's economy, Bell says [11/13/07]
Doyle signs 2007-09 state budget bill [10/26/07]
Park Falls school board details dramatic cuts [5/3/07]
State is corporate tax haven, report says [4/11/07]
One of four districts surveyed has considered consolidation or dissolution [2/28/07]
Is the Markesan School District on the verge of dissolving? [6/2/06]
Devastation from education caps is worsening every year, survey finds
[2/28/06]
Two small towns lose their schools - and their souls [2/24/06]
Waukesha environmental education faces threat of extinction [2/20/06]
Florence residents vote to save school district [11/9/05]
Phillips schools under the gun [10/21/05]
School spending report 'misleading' [10/12/05]
Are Cuba City schools in jeopardy? [9/29/05]
Florence:
Demise of a school district [8/26/05]
Governor's
vetoes restore state's promise to great schools, Johnson says [7/25/05]
900
picket at Kenosha School Board meeting [4/26/05]
Finding
common ground in Waukesha [3/3/05]
Revenue controls force school districts to cut at heart of education
[12/17/04]
Wisconsin is no 'tax hell,' report says [12/9/04]
Driver's ed hits red light [7/29/04]
Art and music programs suffering under budget cuts [6/25/04]
The 'Walk on the Child's Side' brings 200 people to rally at Capitol
[6/24/04]
Governor's task force to propose QEO repeal [6/2/04]
Budget cuts target phy ed, athletics [6/1/04]
Gifted program cuts leave brightest students behind [5/6/04]
Anti-TABOR coalition growing [4/22/04]
Subcommittee recommends repeal of QEO [4/1/04]
Madison schools face $10 million in cuts [3/12/04]
Local leaders launch 'a new era' [2/10/04]
QEO blocks innovation, governor's panel told [1/22/04]
Appleton schools battle funding crisis [12/12/03]
Realtors' survey finds support for increasing funding of public education
[12/2/03]
Hartford budget cuts threaten achievement [11/21/03]
Revenue caps put schools on 'critical list' [11/14/03]
Small town teacher asks task force to fund schools fairly [11/11/03]
Doyle appoints school funding task force [8/22/03]
Burmaster
calls for repeal of QEO law and school district revenue caps [7/18/02]
1,200
protest outside Manitowoc School Board meeting [5/15/02]
Baumgart sees
impact of revenue caps in New Holstein and Plymouth [5/10/02]
Educators
and community must unite for kids, forum told [5/8/02]
Eau
Claire teachers, school board call for end to QEO, revenue caps [5/7/02]
Budget
crisis worsens revenue cap woes [3/11/02]
| Revenue controls create
Click on this animation to see how revenue controls are threatening to destroy Wisconsin's public schools. |
Greenwood
teachers take on added duties [10/9/01]
Budget Brief:
The need for revenue cap flexibility [8/9/01]
Revenue
caps force some districts to cut counseling services [5/31/01]
District-by-district
breakdown documents hardships caused by revenue controls [3/5/01]
Northern
districts facing severe budget crises [3/2/01]
Waukesha
schools 'at a watershed' [2/27/01]
Budget crises
spreading thanks to revenue caps [2/1/01]
Is high school technical education
doomed? [1/31/01]
Elcho teachers,
staff asked to delay cashing paychecks [1/30/01]
Study
documents growing pain of revenue controls [1/29/01]
Hundreds
protest revenue controls at rally and hearing at State Capitol [1/24/01]
Technical
education victimized by revenue controls [12/18/00]
Hundreds
testify that revenue controls are hurting kids [10/23/00]
Supreme
Court's school finance ruling sends mixed message [7/11/00]
Marchers
rally in Madison, protesting school district revenue controls [6/29/00]
Public schools
increasing fees to balance budgets, Journal Sentinel reports [6/11/00]
Unity
fights for its school [5/31/00]
Educators,
parents, citizens protest proposed budget cuts for Milwaukee schools [5/26/00]
Sun
Prairie playing the revenue control blues [4/28/00]
Educators
plan 2nd walk to the Capitol to protest revenue controls [3/22/00]
Revenue
controls overwhelm Menasha schools [3/22/00]
New study
documents negative impact of revenue controls on schools and children
throughout Wisconsin [2/23/00]
Hard
numbers and hard choices; a viewpoint by WEAC President Terry Craney [2/23/00]
Finance
system and revenue controls put schools 'in great peril,' WEAC argues
before Supreme Court [2/8/00]
Monona
Grove contract dispute – complicated by revenue controls –
heads to mediation [2/7/00]
Revenue
controls blamed for severe disrepair of school buildings [1/24/00]
Madison
voters say OK to exceeding revenue controls [11/10/99]
Revenue
controls identified as 'destructive educational policy' at Phillips
forum [10/22/99]
Student
fees burden families; Revenue controls blamed for increases [9/28/99]
Study
says state schools are behind in technology; Craney blames revenue controls [9/23/99]
Revenue
control reality sets in as schools reopen to staff and program cuts [8/29/99]
Playgrounds
symbolize impact of revenue controls [8/29/99]
Video examines human impact of revenue controls [8/27/99]
WEAC brief
challenges constitutionality of school finance system [8/23/99]
Educators
from Phillips meet with governor to discuss impact of revenue controls [7/27/99]
Administrators
from five school districts appeal for relief from revenue controls [6/8/99]
Educators
walk to Madison to protest school district revenue controls [6/7/99]
300-mile
march planned for June 7-17 to protest school district revenue controls [5/28/99]
Revenue
controls hit home in Waterloo [3/26/99]
Projected
enrollment declines to exacerbate impact of revenue controls [2/9/99]
Revenue controls
keep Eau Claire schools stuck in the past [2/5/99]
Revenue controls
punish Wilmot [12/2/98]
Racine
schools struggle with class sizes of up to 45 students [10/19/98]
Janesville
teachers, school officials, community leaders unite against revenue
controls [9/21/98]
Revenue
controls threaten the future of the Laona School District [8/26/98]
New
study documents revenue cap pain [3/6/98]
Revenue controls forcing more cuts in educational programs [10/17/97]
Searching for equity - Revenue controls worsen school funding disparities [4/28/97]
A warning from California: Don't let this happen in Wisconsin! [3/4/97]
Teacher saves kids from falling ceiling [11/1/96]
RESEARCH AND PERSPECTIVE
School district revenue caps annual surveys
Effects of the Revenue Caps on Wisconsin's School Districts, 2001-02
[3/10/03]
Effects of the Revenue Caps on Wisconsin's School Districts, 2000-01
School Year [3/8/02]
Effects of the Revenue Caps on Wisconsin's School Districts, 1999-00
School Year [1/29/01]
Effects
of the Revenue Caps on Wisconsin's School Districts, 1998-99 School
Year [2/23/00]
Effects
of the Revenue Caps on Wisconsin's School Districts, 1997-98 School
Year [2/10/99]
Effects
of the Revenue Caps on Wisconsin's School Districts, 1996-97 School
Year [2/4/98]
Effects of the Revenue Caps on Wisconsin's School Districts, 1995-96
School Year [5/1/96]
Research
Bullets: Schools as a declining share of property taxes [2003]
(this is a pdf file)
Great Schools Issue Paper [1999]
Anatomy of a Movement: Wisconsin Vouchers and the Bradley Foundation [10/8/98]
A divestment in
public schools: Revenue controls force painful cuts A column by WEAC President Terry Craney [11/7//97]
WEAC Issue Paper: School District Revenue Controls [6/12/97]
