Scott Walker to release 'dramatic' plan for rural schools
Gov. Scott Walker is preparing a plan to help rural school districts, he said Wednesday.
No details about the plan have been revealed by the governor, but Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance executive director Kim Kaukl said funding for rural schools and transportation, expanding broadband access and initiatives to improve the “teacher pipeline” and administrative efficiency are being discussed.
Walker’s 2017-19 state budget proposal also will include funding to allow districts to apply for grants for mobile wireless internet hot spots for school buses and to allow students to take home, Kaukl said.
Assembly Republicans have previously floated the idea of proposing in the upcoming budget to supply a tablet or laptop computer to nearly all high school freshmen.
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