Where is Gov. Scott Walker on this?
Walker is not the Mayor of Milwaukee.
“The mayor’s assistant gave me a piece of paper with a second PILOT on it. They wanted us to pay an additional $1.3 million to cover what they said the city would lose by students using vouchers to go to our school,” he said.
“I just about jumped out my seat. I couldn’t believe they were serious proposing on a purchase of $880,000 what was basically a tax of $1.3 million,” Tyson said.
A “school choice tax” is how the WILL report describes this sort of payment Barrett wants from voucher schools that seek to purchase MPS buildings.
Barrett has long been dissatisfied with the way the voucher program is funded, saying it is unnecessarily expensive for the city.
The Mayor [Tom Barrett, whom Governor Walker defeated, twice!] told me if we didn’t want to pay this tax, I needed to go to Madison and get the Republicans to fix the way vouchers are funded,” Tyson recalled.
“Suddenly it all became clear. Somebody somewhere along the way had decided St. Marcus is the sort of the darling of the voucher movement — a program strongly associated with Republicans — so putting St. Marcus over a barrel would help get the funding changed.”
Fledermaus: Not sure it’s gotten to the Governor’s desk as of yet...but it sure proves what a SORE LOSERMAN Mayor Tom Barrett is! Milwaukee is a mess. My family escaped it in 1970.
“Where is Gov. Scott Walker on this?”
This is most likely a local issue, not state. It’s up to conservatives in school districts to attack local schoolboards and read those leftist commie scum the riot act.