In 2020, mostly due to the pandemic, Green Bay saw more people who lack housing gathering in St. John’s Park in the heart of downtown, generating more than 100 police calls from April to October, including disturbances, public drug use and sexual assaults.
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Heather Graves is a staff writer for The Press Times.
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Wisconsin’s special ed system: High stress, sparse state funding
Over the past five decades, state support for special ed has dwindled, and staff shortages and turnover make it difficult to provide required services.
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Wisconsin school districts keep begging voters for more money. Is the state funding formula broken?
Proposals to update the state’s nearly 30-year-old revenue scheme stall out in the Legislature as voters increasingly are asked to OK new spending.