Making sense of the state budget for schools

When is an increase actually a decrease?

That's what Gov. Jim Doyle and the Democrats have been debating with legislative Republicans about since the Joint Finance Committee finished its work on the state budget.

It's confusing, to be sure.

But two Journal Sentinel reporters, Alan Borsuk and Amy Hetzner, have teamed up to offer the most understandable explanation I've seen of what the numbers really mean.

Their Sunday story