May 17, 2024
Funds

Legislature would limit governor’s power over federal funds

Wisconsin voters could decide in August if the Legislature should have final say over how the governor spends federal funds allocated to the state. The Assembly voted along party lines Thursday, with all Democratic lawmakers opposed, to advance a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to limit the governor’s authority over how some federal funds are

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Funds

School districts have nine months to spend billions in unused COVID relief funds

The last batch of COVID-19 relief funding for public schools allocated by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is set to expire at the end of September 2024 — and states and school districts still have billions in unspent funds. According to data from the Department of Education, not a single state has managed

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