The Truth About Gov. Walker’s Education Policies
Gov. Walker on facts: Truth-O-Meter Says ‘False’
Posted on: Monday December 5th, 2011
Thomas Beebe, Executive Director of Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools
Two very different stories have been duking it out in Wisconsin newspaper articles, editorial pages and airwaves in the aftermath of Gov. Scott Walker’s $1.6 billion cut to the state’s public schools.
In one corner is Walker himself. Reacting to suggestions that the quality of the state’s public schools will be hurt by the largest cut to education in the state’s history, Walker has defied logic by repeatedly saying that Wisconsin schools will be “the same or better” as a result of the cuts.
In fact, Walker’s refrain of “the same or better” has become so much a part of his public comments that
