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In The News : Milwaukee Area Labor Council AFL-CIO

In The News : Milwaukee Area Labor Council AFL-CIO:

PUT TRUTH OF VOUCHER TAX ON CITY BILL, MPS ASKS

MPS board members Jeff Spence (left) and author Larry Miller (center) prepare to suppor the resolution while legislative policy manager Chris Thiel (right) prepares to testify.

By Dominique Paul Noth
Editor, Labor Press
Posted September 18, 2011


The Milwaukee Public Schools board is requesting another group of elected officials, the leaders of the city of Milwaukee, to engage in a flagrant act of truth in advertising and transparency in government.

They are asking for city property tax payers to be told that 17% of what they think they are paying to MPS is never seen by MPS and is actually filling the gaping financial hole the state -- with all its revenue streams – left in the private