MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal for funding public schools and doing away with a cap on enrollment for the statewide private school voucher program are on the agenda for the Legislature’s budget committee. The Joint Finance Committee is in the second of three days of briefings Tuesday in which state agency heads discuss Walker’s budget. State Superintendent Tony Evers was expected to testify about public education funding. Evers opposes much of Walker’s proposal for schools, including doing away with the 1,000-student enrollment cap. Walker’s budget would also hold funding for K-12 public schools basically flat over the next two years. But in the first year of the budget, which begins in July, schools would not receive a $150-per-student payment they got this year and that many had been counting on continuing.
