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David Crowley: “We have to fund our public schools to the tunes of 2/3.”

Featuring: David Crowley, Democratic | Milwaukee County Executive | Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 24:16

Second, we need to fully fund the special education gap, making sure that school systems don't have to choose between a state mandated service and whether or not they're going to cut programs and teachers pay moving forward. But that also means that We have to fund our public schools to the tunes of 2/3. We've broke our promise as a state, you know, by funding to the tune of 2/3 that would naturally ease the property tax pressures that we're seeing within many local municipalities. (24:16–24:19)

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Asserts that public schools should be funded to the tune of 2/3 to ease property tax pressures.

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