MMSD Key 2005-07 Budget Issues

Support $850 million increase in school aids to provide school property tax relief (estimated MMSD impact, $21.5M 05-07)
Support allowing school districts to use a 5-year enrollment rolling average for the purposes of calculating revenue limits (estimated MMSD impact, $1M FY 07)
Support proposal to expand 4-year old kindergarten
Modify Governor's 4-year old kindergarten proposal to include reimbursing public school 4-year old kindergarten programs in the same manner as 4-year old kindergarten programs operating under the Milwaukee voucher program (voucher schools receive the full amount of allowable state reimbursement by the end of the school year; public school programs have a 3-year reimbursement lag
Support $16.4M increase for transportation aids - no increase since 1991 (estimated MMSD impact, $68,491 05-07)

Support increasing SAGE aid to $2,500 per low-income student (estimated increase to MMSD, $1.3M FY 07)
Support increasing school breakfast reimbursement (MMSD, $25,000 FY 06)
Support $2.4M increase in Bilingual-Bicultural aid to maintain 12% reimbursement to districts
Support "high cost" special education initiative, which would reimburse districts for 90% of a student's cost if they exceed $30,000 (during 2003-04 school year, MMSD had 107 students whose costs exceeded $30,000 - estimated impact $1.4M, FY 07)
Support increase of $12M in FY 07 for special education categorical aids