One Wisconsin Now: Assembly GOP drops Green Bay private school scheme after One Wisconsin Now open

[iwishiwas]

Source: wispolitics.com



One Wisconsin Now: Assembly GOP drops Green Bay private school scheme after One Wisconsin Now open records request
6/15/2011

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Madison -- Assembly Republicans have backed down from a controversial plan to siphon millions per biennium from Green Bay public schools to support private schools, just days after One Wisconsin Now filed a comprehensive open records request with five top legislators seeking communications between their offices and numerous representatives of the school privatization industry.

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One Wisconsin Now filed the open records request with the offices of Sens. Robert Cowles, Alberta Darling and Luther Olsen, and Reps. John Nygren and Robin Vos. The request seeks appointment calendars, as well as correspondence and email communications between the legislative offices and numerous organizations within the school privatization industry and their confederates.
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One Wisconsin Now filed the request after an odd series of circumstances that occurred during the waning days of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee. The GOP-controlled JFC passed an omnibus motion for education that included expansion of private school dollars to Racine and other areas on Thursday, June 3. Then suddenly the following day after all education matters had been done, Republicans passed a motion to expand school privatization into Green Bay.

Among the organizations One Wisconsin Now asked for communications regarding include: the American Federation for Children, School Choice Wisconsin, Education Action Group Foundation, Wisconsin Charter Schools Association and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce. “Republicans are gutting funds for public education by $1.6 billion, but they are pumping tens of millions of dollars more to support private schools,” said Ross. “Taxpayers deserve to know how Green Bay kids were suddenly facing millions more in lost funding because of arm-twisting and backroom deals.” ...................

Read more: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=239505

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I hope some shi* shows up!

[elehhhhna]

1. whoa! snap! that's what we're talking about!!!! GO PACK! etc.

[midnight]

2. Wow.... Thanks One Wisconsin Now....

[iwishiwas]

6. yes, I am glad there are groups such as OneWisconsin.

[midnight]

3. Wow.... Thanks One Wisconsin Now....

[reACTIONary]

4. Sunshine...

...is the best antiseptic.

[Snoutport]

7. +1

[SoapBox]

5. Serious sh*t is right! These Crooks and DirtBags are up to all kinds of crap.

...rotten, rotten, ROTTEN to their very core.

Amazing.

[PSPS]

8. The GOP funnels taxpayer $ to cronies who launder part of it back as "campaign contributions"

This is why they want to "privatize" everything. It's an off-the-shelf money laundering scheme to raid the public treasury and line their own pockets.

These people should be swinging from lamp posts.