Article: Students, teachers rally at Capitol South Milwaukee group protests school spending caps; Jensen calls event `outrageous'

Hundreds of South Milwaukee students, teachers and parents held a rally on the steps of the Capitol on Tuesday to protest school spending caps in a demonstration that a top Republican legislator called an outrageous political stunt.

"This is an outrageous abuse of children for political purposes," said Assembly Majority Leader Scott Jensen (R-Town of Brookfield). "The teachers want more money, and they can't convince the voters of South Milwaukee to vote for it."

The rally was sponsored in part by the state teachers union and the local union representing South Milwaukee teachers, opponents of the spending caps.

But school officials said it was an educational experience for students, many ...

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