Summer isn’t letting go of the state quite yet, as temperatures throughout Wisconsin will be above normal for the next several days. Meanwhile the political campaigns and political squabbles are also heating up, as we detail in today’s Key Reads:
Audit of DPI will take precedence over fish and wildlife analysis | WPR
[T]he Joint Legislative Audit Committee will prioritize analyzing the Department of Public Instruction over Wisconsin’s fish and wildlife account, the audit committee co-chair said Friday.
…On Aug. 29, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted 5-4 along party lines to order an audit to analyze DPI’s monitoring of school district finances following revelations this summer that Milwaukee Public Schools did not submit annual audits to DPI, causing the school district to lose $81 million in state funding.
…On Tuesday, Evers told WPR he’s not sure what DPI has done wrong. He called the Republican-led audit of DPI “ridiculous.”
But in June, Evers criticized DPI for waiting nearly a year to inform the public about Milwaukee Public Schools’ financial crisis….Wimberger said DPI’s failure to monitor MPS allowed the district to ask voters to pass a $252 million referendum in April, without knowing the financial trouble the district was in.
“These things have significant ramifications with the lack of monitoring and information out to the public,” Wimberger said.
Here are the other stories from across the state that are today’s Key Reads
