Cuts to Education Create a Rainy Day Feeling

From Annual Fiscal Report Budgetary Basis, State of Wisconsin 2012
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Cuts to education (FY 11 to FY 12)
$412,400,000 - Aids to Wisconsin public library school districts
$189,100,000 - UW System
$  35,700,000 - Wisconsin Technical College System
$637,200,000 - Total

Not that we're alone.

Education Funding Drops In More Than Half Of States.  (Huffington Post, 9/5/2012)

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Wisconsin's rainy day fund in perspective. (10/16/2012)