Crisis in Wisconsin's K-12 Education Funding
How can Dane County communities deal with declining financial support, changing demographics, and attacks on the concept of public education?
Jeff Pertl, Senior Policy Advisor, Department of Public Instruction, and District 17 Supervisor, Dane County Board
Julie Mead, Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, UW–Madison
Heather DuBois Bourenane, Executive Director, Wisconsin Public Education Network
PDF (6 slides/page) of
Pertl presentation in color in b/w
Mead presentation (2 slides/page) in color
Bourinane presentation in color in b/w
Grassroots groups supporting public schools:
Statewide organizations:
Stop Special Needs Vouchers
Wisconsin Association for Talented and Gifted
Wisconsin PTA
Dane County:
Dane County Public Education Coalition
Groups focussed on specific Dane County school districts:
Mad City GRUMPS (Grandparents United for Madison Public Schools)
CAPE-MCPASD (Community Advocates for Public Education - Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District)
SCAPE (Madison)
Stoughton Action Coalition
Sun Prairie Action Resource Coalition (SPARC)
Communities outside Dane County where our league has members:
Citizen Advocates for Public Education (Lake Mills)
Whitewater YES for Education (Whitewater)
Credit: Apple image from Wisconsin Public Education Network