Milwaukee stiff-arms Legislature but takes sales tax money
By Mark Lisheron
Once again, there will be no police officers in Milwaukee Public Schools when classes begin this Tuesday, violating a requirement that is part of the current state budget.
It was way back in June of 2023 that Milwaukee leaders reached a deal with legislators allowing both the city and the county to raise sales taxes in exchange for putting officers back in crime-ridden Milwaukee Public Schools by Jan. 1, 2024.
State Sen. John Jagler, chair of the Senate Committee on Education, said he was at first surprised to learn MPS was still flouting the deadline to put cops back in schools for the first time in eight years. Then he was angry.
“They are breaking the law and they don’t care because there are no ramifications for not complying with this,” Jagler, R-Watertown, told the Badger Institute. “The flippant attitude is just crazy.”
