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- Metrics show free-market reforms lead to broad prosperity in Wisconsin
- Act 10 becomes a front-burner issue — along with billions in savings, lower costs to local governments, and better pay for excellent teachers
- Political rhetoric on trade poses risks to Wisconsin
- Wisconsin’s burdensome childcare rules hurt parents’ pockets
- The harm of guaranteed basic income
- Milwaukee aside, police ranks recovering across Wisconsin
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- Justice has gotten swifter in Wisconsin; observers see room for more improvement
Browsing: Education
What, exactly, have our governments just done for us?
Education Reform Letter to Wisconsin Lawmakers
Families turn to private schools as MPS ignores federal entreaties and keeps classrooms shut
The district failed to fund the curriculum and the teachers, but some MPS believers are pressing on
While NBA players tout education reform, Milwaukee school officials continue to rig the game.
Suspension policies advanced by the race-grievance complex harm both students and teachers
Six years after policy began, classrooms are out of control, teachers are afraid and students – black and white – are suffering
With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses
Cursive writing benefits learning and students’ brains
Bill would expand work, scholarship opportunities for young caddies
The district adopts a policy that keeps parents in the dark about their gender-transitioning children
Over 180 credit unions and banks across Wisconsin already offer student loan refinancing products and/or student loans.
Wisconsin should rethink its entire teacher certification process
Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical
Lack of minority high school and college grads and wide prosperity gaps will only exacerbate the region’s growing employee shortage, business leaders fear
In UW System and on Madison campus, women dominate in degrees, personnel and leadership roles
Activist leanings and lack of ideological diversity among the knocks against growing Gender and Women’s Studies major
UW-Madison journalism center and women’s studies major raise some questions — and eyebrows
Principal Julieane Cook of St. Martini Lutheran School on Milwaukee’s south side takes time out twice a day from her administrative duties for “sensory breaks” – where she works with special needs students because no additional staff or resources are available. Private school principals and administrators say in a Badger Institute survey that many special needs children in private schools are left behind because of inequitable allocation of federal resources. Click on the News tab at the top of the page to read the story.
Sunshine Week: Records request illustrates lack of transparency of federal school funding
It would seem a simple question to ask of any public agency: How much money do you spend and on what?