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The dire need for more houses in America has even regulation heavy cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Minneapolis and St. Paul streamlining rules — and providing a playbook for Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is facing a crisis of confidence after accusations of gutting academic standards, manipulating report cards, slacking on fiscal oversight and bungling oversight of sexual misconduct among teachers.
Republican candidates for Wisconsin governor are joining politicians across the country who are increasingly skeptical of tenure guarantees for professors.
While undergraduate enrollment in most University of Wisconsin System schools trends downward, there has been a dramatic increase in students choosing the state’s technical colleges since the pandemic.
Dramatically fewer University of Wisconsin System students are pursuing degrees in the humanities than a decade ago.
About half as many students in the Universities of Wisconsin system are getting bachelor’s degrees in ethnic and gender studies as did at their peak in 2013.
“Democrats put themselves in the situation we’re in, and it’s non-winnable,” says Rachidi, a researcher who has written extensively about FoodShare and SNAP.
Technical college graduates and small business owners will be big winners in the massive Vantage Data Centers development soon expected to become the largest employer in Port Washington.
Sen. Cory Tomczyk expects to take criticism from his own party for helping author a bill that would allow Milwaukee police to use cameras to ticket drivers going at least 15 mph over the speed limit or blowing through red lights.
Vague Wisconsin laws have allowed teachers who are sexual predators to groom children without fearing either appropriately severe criminal penalties or sufficient scrutiny of their teaching licenses, according to testimony Thursday from law enforcement and education administrators.
The biggest data centers planned for Wisconsin are not a threat to local water systems or to Lake Michigan — a fact opponents either can’t believe or won’t admit.
New nuclear measure in Wisconsin includes shifts in state’s priorities in law for ‘only way we keep lights on.’
But reforms via statute might help Wisconsin avoid a still more onerous environment Fixing the…
Wisconsin taxpayers ought to be rooting hard for conservatives to hold the line during this current federal government shutdown and let the pandemic-era super-subsidies for the Affordable Care Act run out at the end of the year.

