{"id":290,"date":"2004-06-02T21:12:03","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T21:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2004-06-02T21:12:03","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T21:12:03","slug":"wisconsin_school_finance_reform_proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin School Finance Reform Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/edexcellence.wisconsin.gov\/index.asp\">Task Force on Educational Excellence<\/a> is evidently poised to suggest that the state fund schools by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase the state sales tax to 6% (from 5%) and <i>reduce<\/i> property taxes by 20% (I&#8217;ll believe that when I see it)\n<li>Eliminate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=wisconsin+qeo&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">QEO<\/a> (Qualified Economic Offer)\n<li>Increase Class size reduction funding to $2,500 per child\n<li>Reimburse school districts at a higher rate for educating high-cost special education students.<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/jun04\/233765.asp\">Amy Hetzner summarizes<\/a> the proposal.<br \/>\nI think that school funding should include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sales tax reform (newspapers, advertising &#8211; are currently not taxed)\n<li>Increase in annual vehicle fees, reflecting the cost of a auto and the fuel efficiency\n<li>Increased Federal Funding via reform of the Social Security tax so that all wage income is taxed, not just the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=2004+fica+limit&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">first $87,600.<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor&#8217;s Task Force on Educational Excellence is evidently poised to suggest that the state fund schools by: Increase the state sales tax to 6% (from 5%) and reduce property taxes by 20% (I&#8217;ll believe that when I see it) Eliminate the QEO (Qualified Economic Offer) Increase Class size reduction funding to $2,500 per child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}