2011-12 WEAC Legislative Agenda

The benefits of a great school go beyond the benefits to the student. Schools attract new jobs and encourage businesses to stay, help property values increase, and help children grow into people we want to have in our lives.

Creating and maintaining great schools is a tradition in our state and something at which Wisconsin has always excelled. Great schools are something people in Wisconsin believe in, even apart from the tangible benefits they bring to students, economies and communities.

The 2011-12 WEAC Legislative Agenda is designed with these ideas in mind. This agenda is based on the WEAC priorities of:

1. School Funding Reform
2. Health Care Reform
3. Professional Development and Licensure
4. Closing Achievement Gaps
 

WEAC will base its support for, or opposition to, a legislative initiative on the following criteria:

• Does it advance WEAC’s priorities referenced in the Agenda for Great Schools?
• Does it improve student learning?
• Does it work to improve the wages, hours and working conditions of our members?
• What are the fiscal ramifications of the proposal for the state?

With these principles as our guide, WEAC will continue to advocate the ideas of a diverse, democratic society and quality public education.