Evers, who served as Wisconsin's superintendent of schools before becoming governor, ordered the independent audit last year after it became known the district failed to submit financial reports to the state leading to the resignation of the district's superintendent and the withholding of funding by state officials.
The first one cost $2.5 million and Evers said the remaining $3 million will be used to help the district implement the audit's recommendations.
The audit was released two days after Milwaukee schools announced it was hiring former Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius as its new superintendent.
The Milwaukee pubic school district struggles with a “culture resistant to change” that has undermined its ability to function properly, disproportionately harming its most vulnerable students, an audit ordered by Democratic Gov.
The audit found that the district, which is the state's largest, with more than 66,000 students, must make sweeping, high-level changes to be more transparent with parents and taxpayers.
