Senator accuses MPS of wasting money on out-of-state school visits [Video]

Milwaukee Public Schools is failing to follow a new state law to put police back in schools. When Gov. Tony Evers enacted the shared revenue bill, or Act 12, MPS became required to bring 25 school resource officers into their schools by January 2024. The deadline passed and a state lawmaker is accusing the district of breaking the law and wasting tax dollars on out-of-state school tours. “Never in a million years had I thought the school district would just break the law and just ignore it,” Republican Sen. John Jagler of Watertown said. The MPS Board of School Directors meets Thursday night and is expected to provide an update on their plan to implement school resource officers, but the district is nearly nine months behind what state law requires. Jagler said MPS is failing to hold up its end of the bargain, the new sales tax caveat that required …