Doyle vows to maintain education funding

Link to January 23 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article.

Excerpt: Gov. Jim Doyle on Friday pledged to a roomful of school officials he would "do everything possible" to maintain education funding in his 2009-'11 budget, which he said would be released in early February.

By that, however, he said he meant that funding for kindergarten through 12th grade would remain flat and not receive the annual increases public schools have received as part of the state's commitment to pay two-thirds of their cost.

"Not getting cut is the new increase in this budget," Doyle said in a speech at the State Education Convention in the Milwaukee Hilton Hotel. (Retiring Guy's emphasis)