Hundreds in Rhinelander Say:
Don't Squeeze Schools
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A lumber truck loaded
with aluminum cans for recycling symbolized
how desperate the funding situation is for
many northern Wisconsin schools. |
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"School funding dominates budget hearing." That
was the headline in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, reporting
on the first Joint Committee on Finance hearing in Rhinelander
on Monday, March 24, 2003.
Legislators were greeted by over 350 students, parents, educators,
and administrators from 25
'up-north' school districts. They called for expanded
funding for public schools.
Busloads of students on spring break brought bags full of
aluminum cans to recycle for funding gaps. They loaded them
onto a 50-foot lumber truck while the middle school chorus
sang about tomorrow's dreams.
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Merrill superintendent
Frank Harrington spoke at a press conference
held by students and representatives of
WAES prior to the Joint Finance Committee
hearing in Rhinelander. |
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Students testified and then the entire group stood and exited
the hearing together following Phillips seventh-grade teacher
Randy Kunsch's call for legislative attention and support.
"We are here because the youth of our state are being
short-changed, and that's just not right," Kunsch said,
as quoted in the Rhinelander Daily News.
For more details, see the terrific stories in the Rhinelander
Daily News and The
Phillips Bee.
Click
here for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story.
Click
here for the Capital Times story.
Click here for a list
of school districts represented at the Rhinelander hearing.
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