Browsing: Education

Hundreds of districts in Wisconsin and thousands more nationwide are saddled with the Single Audit of federal funds that feeds a bloated bureaucracy in Washington while adding little or no value to educational efforts.

Analysis: Wisconsin school districts call federal audits illogical, duplicative and burden to staff and taxpayers.

UW System graduation rates holding Wisconsin back. Authors of WPRI report suggest recreating four-year outstate campuses.

How to recreate the outstate university and finally give students their money’s worth

College tuition continues to rise at a rate that greatly exceeds inflation and student loans are becoming more and more onerous.

Conservative UW System students, at a round-table discussion hosted by the Badger Institute, recount their challenges bucking the liberal trend.

► What do the UW instructors without it – the ones doing much of the teaching – think?
By Ike Brannon, Ph.D.
► How the Regents can make professors accountable to taxpayers and students

“My family wanted private schools because private schools take education seriously. They offer a more rich education and prepare me for my future,” said Sahara Aden, of Milwaukee. But her family couldn’t afford the steep tuition.

We need to know why nearly half of liberal arts graduates from our state’s top university regret the way they spent their money.

Many of LakeView Technology Academy’s graduates are leaving high school with half of an associate’s degree in their pockets. Others are entering four-year universities as second-semester freshmen.

Lori A. Weyers, president of Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, says the IT worker shortage is reaching a “crisis” stage.

Only now are businesses realizing that traditional college curriculums are not meeting the growing demand of companies such as Epic and are turning to technical colleges to fill the gap.

The Dane County Child Support Agency will be rolling out a pilot program called the Forgiveness of Arrears for Completion of Education.

The number of Minnesotans migrating east for Wisconsin universities is now nearly double the number of Wisconsinites traveling west for Minnesota schools.

The special education voucher program will help a small but deserving group of kids who repeatedly have been denied the opportunities available to their non-disabled peers.

How to get the UW System more involved in ground-level economic development.

The funding disparity between UWM and UW-Madison reflects that the two institutions have sharply different histories and are in many ways two different animals.

There is strong public support for special needs vouchers: 62% of Wisconsin residents support such a program, according to a WPRI poll.

The Wisconsin Special Needs Scholarship initiative would give parents the opportunity to do what they believe is best for their child, much like parents who seek the best medical treatment for their child’s illness.

The system is performing so poorly that major changes, not just tweaks, are needed.