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Kelda Roys: “Kids in wealthy suburban districts should be worth $9,000…”

Featuring: Kelda Roys, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, District 26

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Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor

Published | Video Starts at 14:42

Yes. New formula or what? Well, yeah, I think we can adjust the formula that we have. There is no reason that Kids in wealthy suburban districts should be worth $9,000 per kid. And in other rural school districts or in the north side of Milwaukee, they're worth, you know, 4,500 or 5,000 per kid. So we have to address that inequity and actually look at what resources are needed to educate the actual children we have in actual school districts. (14:42–14:55)

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Asserts that there is a funding disparity between wealthy suburban districts and rural or Milwaukee districts.

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