Rep. John Nygren says School Districts didn't lose funding after all?

Rep. John Nygren is turning out to be just as full of himself as Sen. Glenn Grothman, Rep. Dale Kooyenga, Robin Vos…gosh, there are just too many to name. Nygren is a know-it-all kind of guy. But knowing a lot fantasy budget theories is never quite as good as working with real numbers.

Nygren is up to no good again. He was firmly behind a now vetoed law that would have kept school information secret unless every school in the state released similar information. What could go wrong. The reason given; that partisan State Superintendent would try to make private schools look bad with selective information.

Nygren didn't take long to exploit that excuse. He's now pretending schools didn't lose state funding, and that Evers is lying. And the actual school board officials complaining? Partisan whining too? Look at the picture showing completely "fabricated numbers." 

Wheeler Report: This week, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released general aid numbers stating that half of Wisconsin public school districts will receive less general aid in the 2013-14 school years than in 2012-13. State Representative Nygren (R-Marinette) was disappointed by the departments’ one-sided representation of funding levels; “Ignoring the increase willfully misleads the people of our state and does a disservice to the good work accomplished by the legislature.”

Yeah, it’s just everyone’s imagination.

WSJ: The Madison School District stands to lose $8.8 million in general state aid this fall — the maximum amount allowed under state law … More than half of the state’s 424 school districts were expected to get less general aid next year … General state aid is based on a complicated funding formula that takes into account student population, property wealth and district spending. Districts like Madison with high lakefront property values typically get less aid per pupil than districts with lower property values … 4-year-old kindergarten enrollment added about 2,000 students.

A onetime addition of 4 year old kindergartners was a good reason to cut aid? Nygren claimed:

The general state aid numbers released by DPI fail to include categorical aids, revenue limit changes, property tax and value changes and declining enrollment.

From what I have read, above, DPI included property tax values and declining enrollment. Not to mention 4,000 kindergartners.