Walker Signs Bill Increasing State Funding For Rural Schools

School districts in rural Wisconsin would see increased state aid under a new bill signed Monday by Governor Scott Walker.  The maximum that a qualifying low-spending district can spend by combining property tax revenue and state aid would go up by 300-dollars to 94-hundred for next school year.  That limit would increase by 100-dollars-a-year for the following four years.  The legislation also increases the amount of sparsity aid from 300-to-400 dollars-a-student.  One-hundred-44 Wisconsin school districts qualify by having 745 students or fewer and a membership density of less than 10 students-a-square-mile.