Assembly Majority Leader Tom Nelson says school funding overhaul unlikely

Link to January 14 Appleton Post-Crescent article.

Excerpt:
Educators who think the state's funding formula for public schools has a better chance of an overhaul under Democratic control should not hold their breath.

"The timing could not be worse," said Assembly Majority Leader Tom Nelson, D-Kaukauna, whose party will have to deal with a state budget deficit that could swell to a record $5.4 billion by 2011.

The bleak scenario has left school districts like Kaukauna with little choice but to talk about teacher layoffs in excess of more than 10 percent if it receives state aid in 2009-10 at a lower rate than the current year.