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- Evers administration pigs out on livestock fees
- Tony Evers’ puzzlingly swift rejection of more education money
- The hills are alive with the, well, approval of leftist politicians
- A new concern in Wisconsin: young slouches
- Building costs heading upward in first impact of bureaucrats being unleashed
- Want to truly help Wisconsin’s children? Stop using them as plaintiffs
- Wisconsin breweries no longer chugging along
- Financially illiterate high schoolers about to be taught a lesson
Browsing: Government Transparency
Wisconsin newspapers fail to disclose left-wing funding sources for hundreds of stories they publish
New Badger Institute book finds federal grants deprive us of our money, liberty and trust.
How federal grants are depriving us of our money, liberty and trust in government – and what we can do about it. This book by the Badger Institute urges states to push back.
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?
‘I have to do a lot of paperwork and spend time testing my kids instead of teaching my kids’
Effort to scrap popular Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is a case study in how difficult it is to reduce spending
Private contractors help states grab more U.S. dollars at the expense of serving children and the poor
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
Grants-in-aid represent more than 1,100 federal aid programs, each with its own rules and regulations.
Sunshine Week: Federal grant funding obscures how government is funded, diffuses accountability
For close to a year now, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has been wrestling with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to obtain a report on what steps
More than it used to be, but Mayor Barrett fails to count all the state’s funding to the city or how much other communities give
St. Croix Chippewa agree to fix grants review process.
Managing federal education dollars is costing Wisconsin taxpayers millions and benefiting children hardly at all.
On Jan. 24, 2017, Mike Nichols, WPRI president, and Dan Benson, editor of the Project for 21st Century Federalism, testified in Madison before the Assembly Committee on Federalism and Interstate Relations. Here is a transcript of their presentation.
Institute releases data on the federalization of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
The questions we should be asking, however, are: Why aren’t our problems getting better? What value does the Washington bureaucracy add?
Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy is seeking a forensic audit of all federal monies awarded to the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa after 113 tribal members sent him a petition alleging mismanagement of federal grants.