The next session of the Wisconsin Legislature is still weeks away, but Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is already spreading misinformation in order to justify not using the state’s $4 billion surplus to fix chronic underfunding of public schools. We’ll have one of the state’s best experts in our Homeroom segment to tell us the tricks being played and how to talk to your own legislator about school funding in the next state budget.

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