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Sunshine Week: Federal grant funding obscures how government is funded, diffuses accountability
For close to a year now, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has been wrestling with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to obtain a report on what steps
More than it used to be, but Mayor Barrett fails to count all the state’s funding to the city or how much other communities give
St. Croix Chippewa agree to fix grants review process.
Admitting students with little chance to graduate helps no one; tying UW System funding to graduation rates would force change.
Litscher: “We’re in a slow creep”
The EITC promotes the expansion of the labor market by increasing the reward to work, while at the same time making it more attractive for businesses to hire.
Managing federal education dollars is costing Wisconsin taxpayers millions and benefiting children hardly at all.
Washington’s grip on state schools continues to grow.
On Jan. 24, 2017, Mike Nichols, WPRI president, and Dan Benson, editor of the Project for 21st Century Federalism, testified in Madison before the Assembly Committee on Federalism and Interstate Relations. Here is a transcript of their presentation.
Many Wisconsin high school graduates arrive at college unprepared and end up in remedial math and writing classes, which makes completing a degree unlikely.
One of the rumored top choices President-elect Donald Trump was mulling to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was Rob Astorino
We need to rethink how we use the faculty at the non-Ph.D.-granting schools in Wisconsin to improve the lot of the state’s students.
Data show people of all political persuasions also favor a govern local approach to solving many of our problems.
The questions we should be asking, however, are: Why aren’t our problems getting better? What value does the Washington bureaucracy add?