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Browsing: Education
Reducing Milwaukeeans’ suffering from crime starts young, and research suggests a means. Between the time these words are written and your reading them, the odds are better than even that someone will be murdered in Milwaukee.
Elita Williams is grateful for the opportunity to select the best schools for her kids.
A Milwaukee mom’s take on why more parents need educational choice.
Students in Milwaukee’s public high schools who want a better life and know that school is their only way up are being battered, assaulted and exposed to gunfire or other reckless conduct on a daily basis.
Education Sharing research and telling the stories of Wisconsin parents seeking education freedom Featured Resources Give Every Wisconsin Family the…
If schools want to impose belief systems on students, parents should have the right to choose their schools.
Milwaukee’s school choice program shows that letting parents choose a moral ecology is how differing beliefs can coexist.
WEA Trust just announced it is terminating its health insurance business
Scarlett Johnson explains what drove her to act on behalf of her local schools, and why more parents should do so.
In response to falling standards, former Mequon-Thiensville school board member launches charter school
Scarlett Johnson sat down with Badger Institute Policy Director Patrick McIlheran this week to explain what drove her to act on behalf of her local schools, and why more parents should do so.
In response to falling standards, former Mequon-Thiensville school board member launches charter school
Who wins and who loses?
May 25, 2022aStudent debt forgiveness schemes are both inefficient and unfair policies for helping low-income families.
Kids are reaping the consequences of school shutdowns
Alumni also express concerns about debt and the value of their degrees
Tax data shows which state universities better promote graduates’ upward mobility
An open embrace of spiritual values in choice schools builds better citizens
There is never one cure-all for complex societal problems like poverty or morally, economically and emotionally untethered children. The first thing is to recognize the problem for what it is. The numbers make that easy.
In Burlington, as elsewhere, families wake up to a revolution being inflicted on children.
Scaring taxpayers about school choice income limits is arrogant.

