{"id":11146,"date":"2024-06-11T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11146"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:14:19","slug":"gop-lawmakers-want-legislative-auditors-to-review-mps-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11146","title":{"rendered":"GOP Lawmakers Want Legislative Auditors to Review MPS Finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/gop-lawmakers-want-legislative-auditors-to-review-mps-finances\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/gop-lawmakers-want-legislative-auditors-to-review-mps-finances\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/evers-maps-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"evers\" title=\"MPS Finances\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol don\u2019t want Gov. Tony Evers to waste the chance to get a good look at Milwaukee Public Schools\u2019 shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>Evers recently called for an operational and an instructional audit of MPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proposing today to go two steps further with two important goals: the first, to audit MPS\u2019 programs and operations in their entirety, and the second, to audit the effectiveness of teaching and instruction of our kids in classrooms across the district,\u201d Evers said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, however, wants to keep the audit within his administration and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said that\u2019d be a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad that Gov. Evers has called for an audit of the Milwaukee Public School System. Gov. Evers and DPI should work with Joint Legislative Audit Committee Co-Chairs [Eric] Wimberger and [Robert] Wittke to discuss authorizing the non-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau to audit MPS, DPI and any other involved stakeholders,\u201d LeMahieu said. \u201cThe LAB is more than capable of handling this important undertaking independently and transparently without the use of outside contractors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The worry is an audit controlled by the governor\u2019s office will not fully look into MPS\u2019s shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>The calls for audits in Milwaukee Public Schools come after the state withheld nearly $17 million last week because of incomplete and late financial reports. One of those reports was due to the Department of Public Instruction in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Evers has asked MPS leaders to be a part of any audit process but warned that not everyone will be invited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also have to say \u2013 I\u2019m exceedingly disappointed by the politicking and jockeying I\u2019ve seen since this situation came to light by opportunists who\u2019re seizing this moment to serve their own selfish goals instead of worrying about what matters most: our kids,\u201d Evers added.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos took to social media to accuse the governor of being the one who is playing politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd who do you think [Evers] will suggest conducts the audits?\u201d Vos asked. \u201cThe same failed DPI bureaucrats who allowed this to happen or his administration who wanted to dismantle the school choice system so all kids were forced into this MPS mess? We need real reforms to the current mentality where MPS has been protecting the bureaucracy and Gov. Evers has been advocating for shoveling hundreds of millions of dollars into this broken system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/gop-lawmakers-want-legislative-auditors-to-review-mps-finances\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":9071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11148,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions\/11148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}