On Wednesday public schools and universities are digesting the news of millions of dollars worth of possible aid cuts as part of Governor Walker's biennium budget.

Most educators we talked to Wednesday say they're feeling a little overwhelmed and disappointed with the budget and it's implications for students.

Altoona Superintendent Greg Fahrman says his district will be getting $729,000 fewer dollars this year because of Walker's budget cuts.

But that's not all. The budget also includes a lot of undoing of mandates, like not requiring schools to have a nurse or a reading specialist, which Governor Walker calls tools to help schools.

Something Fahrman says is a little contradictory, ”So we never want to be without a reading specialist; school nurse we never want to be without a school nurse, those are being listed as tools and really they are tools that destroy some of the things we've been building for the last few years,” he tells us.

For example, the budget also sets out goals to improve third grade reading scores, but Fahrman says reading specialists are essential to improving kids reading.

“As educators we know what's best for kids, and I think there are times when it gets real difficult for us, when politicians are telling us what they think is best for kids,” he says.

Meanwhile, UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Dr. Brian Levin-Stankevich says slashes to UW-system funding means $5 million fewer dollars coming into UW-Eau Claire.

“Students are going to be negatively impacted, in the long run, I mean there will be less of something, there will be fewer of something,” he tells us.

Levin-Stankevich says the state is heading in a direction that will ultimately limit access to higher education.

But it's not just UW schools, technical schools will see a 30 percent reduction in state funding as well, which equals between $2-3 million in cuts to Chippewa Valley Technical College.

“Well obviously it's going to be a negative impact, either we have to cut back or we have to increase class sizes, fewer students, we already have 1500 students on our waiting list trying to get into the college. So there is going to be an impact somewhere,” CVTC President Bruce Barker tells us.

Superintendent Fahrman says Altoona will most likely be going to a referendum in the spring of 2012 as well as put off some maintenance projects in order to cover for the reduction in state aid.