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Resource Guide
This comprehensive guide contains 80 images, with links and notes, that explain the challenges facing public education.

Fix the Maps, Close the Gaps for every child in every public school. This fact-filled PowerPoint explains how partisan voting maps have led to public education funding that is riddled with inequities. For easy viewing, open the PowerPoint in Google Slides.

Wisconsin School Funding and Its Challenges
Dr. Julie Underwood, authority on school law and retired Dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, provided this one-hour overview of education funding and current challenges facing public schools on April 27, 2021. View the video, slide deck.

For a deeper dive into school finance, review School Finance 102 featuring Julie Underwood and Bob Soldner: video, slide deck.

Make the World Better
Charlotte Bowder, a student at Casco Bay High School in Maine, wrote a song celebrating community amid social isolation.  She and a friend recruited 34 other musicians–from high school string players to elementary schoolers on pots and pans–across 11 schools in seven states to play the song together virtually. Give it a listen.  It will be the best four minutes of your day.

Public Funds Public Schools is a national campaign that strives to ensure that all public funds for education are used to maintain and support public schools. Efforts to undermine public education, including various kinds of private school vouchers, must be met with a robust, sustained response.

Other resources on privatization: National Coalition of Public Education, Network for Public Education.

Special Education Funding
This one-minute video clarifies the special education funding gap. Closing the gap will restore fair funding for all students.

The Wisconsin Public Education Network (WPEN) is an informal, non-partisan alliance of parents, educators, board members, administrators, schools districts, and groups all over the state who are committed to ensuring that public schools have the resources and support they need.