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Melissa Hughes: “The shared revenue formula that we have today is really…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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WI Gubernatorial Candidate Missy Huges Speaks at CoCo Dems Headquarters

Published | Video Starts at 17:37

So what steps will you take to either return local control or provide funding that's needed for schools and roads and other local services without overburdening taxpayers? Well, The shared revenue formula that we have today is really similar to what we have happening with public school funding of Frankenstein. that has developed over the course of the last couple decades and with different moves across legislation and the legislature to fix this over here and tweak this over here and you end up, like I say, with this Frankenstein that is not functioning. (17:37–17:48)

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Asserts that the current shared revenue formula is dysfunctional and similar to the flawed public school funding system.

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