Across the country there are stories about “school lunch debt,” a heinous sentence that should give every person a great deal of shame. Children denied lunch because of a $9 debt. There is a wealth of mental health stress that we inflict on children in the name of lunch “fiscal responsibility”.

A school can have a history of low completion rates, high rates of federal loan default, or be currently entangled in a lawsuit in a different state. WEAP will still approve these schools. For this particular body to move and regulate a school in Wisconsin the school must have already operated in the state and harmed its student body. This is leniency on predatory businesses that borders on negligence.

Public financing is complicated, in part because some people would rather not have any public financing at all. If it were as simple as Milwaukee collecting tax revenue then spending that  revenue on public infrastructure, the Milwaukee Public School (MPS) district might not be in the godawful mess it’s in –unfortunately, the reality is complicated and stupid, just like most bureaucracies.

This edition:

Democrats Do Defend Public Education

Democrats Don't Commit Fraud to Privatize Schools