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2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill or the Wisconsin Budget Adjustment Act, [1] [2] is a controversial law enacted by the 100th Wisconsin Legislature which significantly limited the rights and compensation of state and local government employees in Wisconsin.
In this session, new governor Scott Walker pushed through the controversial 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, referred to at the time as the "Budget Repair Bill". The most controversial provision of the law was the stripping of state employees of collective bargaining rights.
The budget repair law reduced state aid to K–12 school districts by about $900 million over the next two years. 410 of Wisconsin's 424 districts will get about 10 percent less aid than the previous year.
The new report anticipates the state collecting $894.3 million in general fund tax collections over three fiscal years starting with the current year, above the $891.3 million projected in the ...
The analysis ignores department budget requests, stating the governor and legislators rarely approve those requests, and instead looked at base spending and cost increases. ... Wisconsin Policy ...
Wisconsin faced an anticipated deficit of approximately $3.6 billion in the 2012–2013 budget cycle [99] [140] which must be balanced according to state law. Walker's proposed budget cut $834 million in state aid for K–12 education, which would be a 7.9% reduction from the prior budget.
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin will need to find an additional funding source for road repairs and transportation spending or the quality of the state’s road system will decline, according to ...
At the start of the 100th Wisconsin Legislature, Cowles supported Governor Scott Walker's controversial "budget repair bill," which passed into law as 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 after months of intense partisan controversy and protest. Much of the controversy was caused by a provision of the law which removed the rights of public employee unions to ...