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Why do Wisconsin politicians want to close schools providing measurably great education for working-class kids?

Wisconsin’s own economics standards consistently teach the importance of prices, profits, competition, incentives and property rights, while one of the state’s leading candidates for governor campaigns without admitting or even seeming to understand their value.

Florida’s politics, suggests Owens, which are more confidently conservative than in Wisconsin.

What Wisconsinites need to know about how the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program works.

Public school district leaders are thinking about what scholarships from private donations through a new federal tax credit program the will do for their students.

“There’s never been a federal program that’s been as generous as this that the state didn’t opt in,” said Kooyenga.

A Wisconsin law requiring schools to inform parents when their students are struggling with reading is going unenforced in far too many districts.

Think of the failure of the $1.8 billion tax-and-spending deal between Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature as a second chance at better policy.

Wisconsin’s state spending to help school districts pay for special education has been surging in recent years.

Milwaukee Public Schools, amid a fiscal crisis, should close 25 underutilized school buildings to free up wasted resources, says City Forward Collective.

Students learn less and earn less when they have less incentive to actually study in order to get top grades.

In 1969, nearly nine out of 10 American children lived in households with two married parents. By 2023, that figure had fallen to roughly six in 10.

There is new evidence that some students hurt themselves economically by going to college — a fact Republicans are using to limit student loans.

The University of Wisconsin System this month opened the door for its campuses to begin offering faster, cheaper three-year degrees.

Nine policy recommendations for Wisconsin schools to keep teaching talent by correcting the conditions that lead to teacher loss.

Facing a difficult market for hiring teaching talent, leaders of Wisconsin independent schools are developing useful strategies even as they look to the state for fundamental policy and financial reforms.

Wisconsin’s public school teachers are leaving their classrooms at higher rates than they have in more than 25 years. Here, we present their voices.

The average GPA for undergraduate students at Wisconsin’s flagship university increased to 3.48 in the recently completed fall semester — up from 3.28 just 10 years ago.

All 13 four-year University of Wisconsin System schools impose an ethnic studies requirement in order to graduate.

Republican lawmakers managed to pass a conservative-coded policy in a purple state with a Democratic governor. It’s all well and good to point to Florida or Texas and wish that every state could do likewise. Unfortunately, not every state capitol boasts a conservative governor ready to pick controversial fights backed up by a large Republican majority. Wisconsin demonstrates that even purple states can win meaningful, albeit limited, conservative victories.