Are You Listening Madison? Kentucky Supremes Cut Off Charter Schools!

 Wisconsin has been a leader in spending public funding for charter schools and it was been a very very controversial provision in state budgeting. There are often two reasons put forward for the shortfall in public school budgets and the growing reliance in Wisconsin for referendums to increase property tax revenues over the caps.The first is the continued reduction in public support of our schools by the GOP cabal in control of Madison since the Walker regimes...and the second is the claimed draining of student bodies and the resulting state support as charter schools cannibalize public education.

So today, the Kentucky Supreme Court knocked down a law granting public revenues to charter schools. 

"The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down a law Thursday that would have allowed public funding to go to charter schools. 

Kentucky currently has no charter schools, and the court has determined public funding is only allowed for “common schools” under the state’s constitution.  

“Charter schools, by statute, are not regulated by local state authorities in school districts, are not regulated by the rules set out by the state authorities for schools, even if excluded from school districts, and therefore they are not a common school,” the judges found.  "

Wisconsin, are you listening??