Browsing: Education

Who’s really listening to all the talk about jobs in Wisconsin?

As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently reported, on June 24 the U.S. Department of Education announced the creation of a new accountability framework for special needs students.

Excerpts of a speech by Woodson Center President and founder Robert L. Woodson Sr. at the Wisconsin Center.

The last thing Wisconsin and the WIAA need are state lawmakers or the governor (of either party) calling the shots in high school sports.

Report is a blueprint for how legislators can include special needs programs in the accountability legislation they have promised to develop and offers further proof of the need for more options for students with disabilities.

Everybody who cares about their kids has to also start caring enough to educate the Milwaukee School Board as it looks for a new superintendent.

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.