2023-25 State Budget
Latest Updates
State Budget Resources
Advocacy Resources
Testifying at a JFC budget hearing: What to expect & how to prepare
Day at the Capitol Talking Points
- Inflationary Increases in Spendable Resources
- Special Education Funding
- Priority Issues Leave Behind
Sample Materials
- WASB School funding op-ed
- Columbus school board resolution – predictable inflationary increases
- Columbus school board resolution – special education
- Whitefish Bay – biennial budget advocacy priorities white paper (2023-2025)
- Whitefish Bay – budget priorities handout
Brian Pahnke, State Budget Director, presentation from Day at the Capitol
Official Budget Documents
- Summary of Partial Vetoes of 2023 Wisconsin Act 19 (July 7, 2023)
- 2023-25 Enacted Budget
- Governor’s Veto Message
- Comparative Summary of Budget Recommendations — Governor and Joint Committee on Finance — Public Instruction
- Legislative Fiscal Bureau Summary of Governor’s Recommendations – Public Instruction
- Legislative Fiscal Bureau Summary of Governor’s Recommendations – Agency by Agency
- 2023-25 Executive Budget – Public Instruction
- Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo on inflationary increases for schools
- Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo indicating $7.1 billion surplus
- DPI Budget Request
Joint Finance Committee
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Spendable Resources vs. Inflation
The below chart shows how allowable per pupil spendable resources–measured by annual per pupil revenue limit adjustments and increases in per pupil categorical aid—have consistently lagged the annual inflationary adjustments that were allowed from 1995-96 through 2008-09.
In sum, the green bars show the per pupil inflation adjustment that would have been provided each year had inflationary adjustments been continued. The blue bars show the per pupil adjustment (if any) that was actually provided. The red bars show the cumulative per pupil impact of the failure to adjust school resources for inflation.
The chart illustrates that if Wisconsin had simply maintained the previously allowed inflationary adjustment, our public school districts would have had $3,160 more per pupil available in the current (2022-23) school year (and that’s not factoring in the current high rate of inflation).
Capitol Chat Webinar - Fridays at Noon
The Capitol Chat is a short(er) webinar hosted by the Government Relations staff primarily focused on the state budget at noon on Fridays. These weekly webinars can be accessed by clicking on the laptop graphic above.
Recent Capitol Chat Recordings
- Capitol Chat: July 7, 2023
- Capitol Chat: June 30, 2023
- Capitol Chat: June 23, 2023
- Capitol Chat: June 16, 2023
- Capitol Chat: June 9, 2023
- Capitol Chat: June 2, 2023
- Capitol Chat: May 26, 2023 (Presentation only)
- Capitol Chat: May 19, 2023
- Capitol Chat: May 12, 2023
- Capitol Chat: May 5, 2023
- Capitol Chat: April 28, 2023
- Capitol Chat: April 21, 2023
- Capitol Chat: April 14, 2023
- Capitol Chat: April 6, 2023
- Capitol Chat: March 31, 2023
- Capitol Chat: March 24, 2023
- Capitol Chat: March 17, 2023
- Capitol Chat: March 10, 2023
- Capitol Chat: March 3, 2023
- Capitol Chat: Feb. 24, 2023
