Republicans Miffed By MPS Pandemic Aid MPS gets 16 times more per pupil than Wauwatosa schools under federal formula awarding more to low-income students. By Steven Walters - Apr 12th, 2021 11:38 am //end headline wrapper ?> Riverwest Elementary School, 2765 N. Fratney St. File photo by Dave Reid. Republican Sen. Howard Marklein, cochair of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC), had a question for Carolyn Stanford Taylor, state superintendent of public instruction: Are the pandemic-related needs of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) five times greater than the COVID-19 costs for the Lancaster School District in Marklein’s southwest Wisconsin district? Marklein asked because a Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) report said federal pandemic-aid packages will give MPS an average of $11,242 per student, while giving the Lancaster district aid averaging $2,213 per student.