school funding

October payments for Impact Aid have been delayed because of the shutdown and firings in the Department of Education.

The vast majority of staff in Department of Education’s Office of Impact Aid were fired as part of the department’s recent reduction in force creating uncertainty around when funding will be released to districts.

Each year several Northwoods counties and school districts within the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest receive federal funding.The Secure Rural Schools funding goes towards schools and the roads that lead to them.But the program is being held up—despite wide bipartisan support for it.

Peggy Wirtz-Olsen of the Wisconsin Education Association council, also a high school teacher, said Wisconsin educators have already been sounding the alarm about the lack of special education funding

A proposed ballot initiative to help close Michigan’s $4.5 billion school funding gap has won the endorsement of the State Board of Education

Education advocates in Michigan said the state’s new school budget does not go far enough to meet students’ needs

A statewide coalition of parents, educators and advocates in Michigan is launching a ballot measure to raise more than $1 billion a year for public education

The Wisconsin Policy Forum study showed the state spent less than $15,000 per student in 2023, nearly 10% less than the national average

The Wisconsin governor's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be “attention grabbing,” but it was constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday

Northland Pines received a 67% approval vote for a $5.6 million per year referendum for the next three years