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A promising path: Blended / online learning in Wisconsin’s K-12 schools. Featuring guest speakers Susan Patrick and Michael Horn. Sponsored by the Badger Institute and the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.

It is counterproductive to force school districts to rebrand a popular district-option while the state expands the competitive atmosphere of K-12 education.

Heartland conservatism If there were any winners in the government shutdown, it may have been GOP governors, including Wisconsin’s Scott…

Allow local districts to count students from their districts attending independent charter schools and then transfer the state and local revenue generated by each pupil to the charter school.

Report recommends specific ways for legislators to hold schools of education accountable and make sure teachers are getting the training they need in order to succeed in the classroom.

Taking small steps to tone down the rhetoric on both sides and demonstrate why increased trust is warranted is a much more realistic and preferable route.

Superintendent Thornton fails to inspire innovation and openness, three former administrators say in candid interviews By early summer, as Greg…

Liberals and conservatives see starkly different worlds through it The statewide expansion of the school choice program has left its…

The singular leadership of George Lightbourn The term “public servant” has been used too generically to retain much of its…

The new program will create an additional expense to the state. However, it is possible that the loss in GPR may be offset by the positive fiscal impact of reducing declining enrollment trends in private schools.

In New Orleans, through the first Recovery School District in the nation, the percentage of students attending failing schools there has been reduced from 78% to 40%.

What was the most surprising part of the education package passed by the Joint Committee on Finance? 

Report lays out the steps needed to return a culture of excellence to Milwaukee schools and explains why achieving this turnaround will be challenging.

I recall a conversation I had with a teacher five years ago.  At the time, she was teaching in a suburban Milwaukee school and she clearly missed what had been her passion, teaching in the Milwaukee central city.

Almost two full years ago, right at the height of a heated legislative debate in Madison over whether to expand school choice, Disability Rights Wisconsin and the ACLU filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that schools in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program discriminate against children with disabilities.

Report gives readers a base level of knowledge of school finance to help them better understand key issues surrounding Wisconsin’s education system.

Shortly after November’s presidential election, America’s pundit class was flush with theories about how President Obama could win every battleground…

Wisconsin has a commitment to provide a public education for all of its pupils. However, that commitment comes with the responsibility of giving teachers an instructional environment in which they can succeed and protecting students from the negative effects of misbehaving classmates.

Many children are still all too often denied their right to an appropriate education and recognition as individuals given a fair chance of leading productive and fulfilling lives.

Forty years ago, Howard Fuller was an angry young man working as a community organizer for an anti-poverty program in…