- Home
- Issues
- Mandate for Madison
- Research
- News & Analysis
- Media
- Events
- About
- Top Picks
- Donate
- Contact Us
Subscribe to Top Picks
Get the latest news and research from Badger Institute
- A win for Wisconsin families: Childcare in the 2025-2027 biennial state budget
- Port Washington data center on track to by far be state’s largest electricity user
- ‘We still need to pave our roads’
- Where the precipitous drop in birthrates is a very, very good thing
- How the pandemic is now used to make politicians look wonderful
- Tony Evers and why voters are going to be skeptical of what comes next
- Supreme Court gives governor’s bureaucrats free rein
- Robocars vs. overpriced groceries
Browsing: Education
Funding regulations hamper districts and don’t improve education, local officials say in survey
Paperwork takes staff away from daily responsibilities and educating kids, officials say.
By Julie Grace
November 13, 2017
U.S. education secretary also plans to give them more say over federal school dollars
Following institute’s story, Gov. Scott Walker asks Department of Public Instruction to resubmit Wisconsin federal funding plan.
ESSA could offer opportunities for state to involve districts in decision-making
School officials make decisions they wouldn’t make otherwise to comply with funding requirements.
By Julie Grace and Dan Benson
September 12, 2017
Admitting students with little chance to graduate helps no one; tying UW System funding to graduation rates would force change.
Managing federal education dollars is costing Wisconsin taxpayers millions and benefiting children hardly at all.
Washington’s grip on state schools continues to grow.
Institute releases data on the federalization of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Many Wisconsin high school graduates arrive at college unprepared and end up in remedial math and writing classes, which makes completing a degree unlikely.
We need to rethink how we use the faculty at the non-Ph.D.-granting schools in Wisconsin to improve the lot of the state’s students.
“Our philosophy used to be procure (funding) and then figure out how to use (the money),” Director of Business Services Andy Chromy said.
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