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The Milwaukee Teachers Union, a sitting state senator, and Scott Walker – The Top Campaign Finance Violators in Wisconsin
When politicians and PACs break campaign finance law, regulators enforce penalties. The Badger Project requested every settlement in the history of the regulatory body, the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Political candidates and interest groups have paid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties since the 2016 launch of the Wisconsin Ethics...
Opinion: MPS suffers death by a thousand cuts while private, choice schools get millions
Over 30 years ago, the Wisconsin Legislature and Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson passed a new law allowing Milwaukee tax dollars intended for public schools to go directly to private voucher schools who are not accountable or transparent to the public. Since that first voucher law in the early 1990s, publicly funded private schools have been expanded to include private charter schools while voucher school funding has expanded exponentially throughout the state. ...
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