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Wisconsin’s newly elected are not there to serve special interests or serve donors. They are elected to serve the children and taxpayers, young parents and workers, retirees and twenty-year-olds alike.

Wisconsin students should should graduate with a clear understanding of communism’s history and the consequences of sacrificing individual liberty to unchecked government power.

Even as the total number of school-age children continues to fall, the number of homeschooled kids in Wisconsin jumped by nearly 1,800, or 5.8 percent over the prior school year, as of September 2025.

Wisconsin’s next Legislature and governor should work to ensure that more Wisconsin families can access the education they believe best serves their children.

How can there be one staff member for every seven students in Milwaukee Public Schools and yet classes as large as 34?

Total potential private giving through the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit could be six times higher than previously estimated.

Rather than simply putting more resources into a system producing disappointing results, policymakers should focus on reforms that improve how public schools function.

One important factor remains missing from Wisconsin’s education dashboards: family structure.

Truth be told: Madison Metropolitan School District is as troubled as Milwaukee Public Schools is.

If Wisconsin children receive poor instruction, attend chaotic schools, and learn through weak, incoherent curricula, then industry and civil society will struggle accordingly.

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.

Wisconsin can pursue practical, targeted reforms that improve accountability, strengthen academic standards and better align universities with the needs of students and taxpayers without dismantling the university system itself.

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.