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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.

It would seem a simple question to ask of any public agency: How much money do you spend and on what?