Wisconsin: GOP support for Walker education budget crumbling

[Scuba]

http://host.madison.com/news/state-and-regional/gop-support-for-walker-education-budget-crumbling/article_e088cc57-8fba-5164-ab4f-1c5accd078f2.html

Senate Republicans won't back Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to expand private school voucher programs or freeze public school spending, GOP leaders told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The dissention within his party over key elements of Walker's budget comes as a blow to the Republican governor less than two weeks after he released a plan intended to serve as the cornerstone of his legislative agenda for the next two years.

Senators remain committed to a voucher school expansion but are working on alternatives to what Walker proposed, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald told AP in an interview. He also said there is "no doubt at all" that public schools will be allowed to increase per-pupil spending even though Walker called for a freeze to help keep property taxes in check.

Most Republican senators won't back Walker's voucher plan, his proposal to give charter schools more autonomy or to give vouchers to special needs students, said Senate President Mike Ellis. He said Walker's proposals will need to be "drastically changed."

Too radical for Mike Ellis? Scary shit.

[mokawanis]

1. So extreme his own party of extremists won't support his proposal

That's odd, since most of them blindly and stupidly support anything the Gov proposes.

[charmay]

2. Too extreme for the WI GOP is pretty damn extreme.