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In which I’m joined by Anne Chapman, the leading expert in Wisconsin school finance, the research director of the Wisconsin Association of School Business Officials, to talk about the impacts of state budget changes on school funding decisions and community conversations. In this episode, we’ve got:

A recap of Wisconsin school finance basics, featuring an extended shandy metaphor

A discussion of revenue-limit and state-aid changes

A conversation on open-enrollment transfer amounts and declining-enrollment pressures

A summary of special-ed and high-cost special ed funding changes.

This is a cross-posting of a conversation I featured on the School Perceptions podcast. If you’re a school leader or a district administrator or a board member, that show is aimed at you and you should check it out!