The Referenda - Derek Gottlieb

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6. What's This About Middle Schools, Now?

Friday, August 23, 2024 • Duration 30:44

In this episode:

WSD's long-range facilities plan
How and why junior highs emerged
How and why middle schools replaced them
What happened when K-8 models became popular
Will 6th graders do okay in elementary schools?
What does the research say about 7-12 models?

Contact me with questions!

References/Bibliography (or: my browser tabs for the last two weeks)

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5. The Politics of Educational Research

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 • Duration 29:37

In this episode:

Important background for interpreting educational research
How we deal with value pluralism and fundamental uncertainty
How educational research responds to and provokes anxiety and moralizing
How we can avoid enmity and grift as we argue about research

Contact me!

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4. BONUS: Conversation with Matthew Kelly

Thursday, July 25, 2024 • Duration 50:51

In which an expert on the history of education finance talks about the evolution of school funding, the different options that we've seen over time, and the various advantages and drawbacks of each.

LINKS:

Matt's book, Dividing the Public

Boston Globe piece on conservative school boards in WI

Arrowhead Union HS District's testimony to legislature.

On how districts' receiving Covid funding is like "winning the lottery."

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3. Footnotes and Headlines

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 • Duration 34:17

In this episode:

More details on revenue limits and state aid
Explaining Tosa's increase in state aid next year
Statewide impacts from Milwaukee's referendum
Special education funding and revenue limits

LINKS

contact me!

Wisconsin Uniform Financial Accounting Requirements

legislative fiscal bureau brief on revenue limits

2023-2024 July 1st estimate

2024-2025 July 1st estimate

legislative fiscal bureau's memo on MKE's referendum

legislative fiscal bureau's brief on state aid

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2: The Plans and the Questions

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 • Duration 34:18

In which we talk about the specifics of the referendum questions we'll see on our ballots in November and the district's plans relating to the proposed funding. With additional complaints about state-level policy that pits housing affordability against school funding and some wonkery about the difference between recurring and non-recurring referenda.

*Ugh, I called Fund 46 "Fund 64" at one point. That's an error.

References:

The referendum questions and tax calculator.

The district's long-range facilities plan.

Wisconsin districts that have created a Fund 46

The administration's 48.4m operating budget plan.

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Trailer: The Referenda

Friday, June 28, 2024 • Duration 00:53

In November 2024, voters in our leafy suburb of Milwaukee will join the majority of Wisconsin school districts in having to approve a sizable local tax levy or else suffer draconian cuts to its public schools.
This series looks at how we got here and what we can do about it, beginning with voting on the referendum.

Hosted by: Derek Gottlieb (derekgottliebphd.com)

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1: The Basics

Friday, June 28, 2024 • Duration 29:07

In which we cover the fundamentals of the Wauwatosa School District budget situation, of school finance in Wisconsin as a whole, of property tax and referendum mechanisms, and of revenue-limit legislation.

LINKS to cited sources:

General WI Educational Funding

State Aid to WI School Districts (source: Legislature pub)

Referenda-use in Wisconsin (Forward Analytics)

Revenue Limits -> Student Outcomes (Rothstein report)

Referendum Impacts on Educational Outcomes (Am. Econ. Journal)

DPI's revenue-limit calculator (DPI)

Local District Descriptive Stats (from NCES for 22-23)

Wauwatosa

Beloit

Campbellspot

7. Open Enrollment, Part One

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 • Duration 38:58

In this episode:

The recent "merger" revelation and what it means
The history of school district boundaries and the things they separate
How and why Open Enrollment and Chapter 220 were created
What we have gained from OE over the years and what we hope to gain by drawing it down

Show notes:

WSD merger stuff

Special school board meeting to release legal opinion

WISN-12 coverage and interviews

The legal opinion itself

Tosa 2075 Task Force materials

Resource booklet

Open Enrollment Data Review slide deck

Policies brief

Task Force final report

State legislative and DPI resources

LFB explanation of Open Enrollment history and processes

8. Open Enrollment, Part Two

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 • Duration 35:23

In this episode:

The correct tax impact of our two referenda
Does Open Enrollment "solve MKE's problems?"
School Choice and (State-)Constitutional Promises
Resident Enrollment Projections and National Population Decline

Show notes!

Comprehensive revenue (select district from dropdown)

(Also, if we WERE interested in a low-cost, politically-inexpensive ways to do OE, check out McFarland's figures in rows 94 and 99 -- the power of virtual charters.)

T2075 Resource Book (see chapter 2)

MKE-area school quality/demographic map (for all schools that report to DPI)

MDR demographic change report

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9. Teacher Compensation

Friday, September 27, 2024 • Duration 37:59

In this episode:

Can we fix our budget issue by cutting administrators rather than teachers?
Why are teachers suddenly having their raises wiped out by new healthcare contributions?
How do we cut our expenses without affecting our teachers?
Can we boost revenue by robbing casinos instead?

LINKS:

Wisconsin Policy Forum report on teacher pay (Nov, 2023).

WPF report on Wisconsin teacher attrition (Aug, 2023).

"Compensation Practices of School Districts [incl. Tosa] When Collective Bargaining Disappears" (Jun, 2018).

LFB memo on revenue limits and inflation (Jan, 2023)

DPI Workforce Analysis Report (Apr, 2024)

NCES annual inflation-adjusted salary stats (through 2022)

Emergency license use in WI (Mar, 2023)

Barbara Biasi, "The Labor Market for Teachers Under Different Pay Schemes" (NBER, 2019)

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