Browsing: K-12 Education

Total potential private giving through the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit could be six times higher than previously estimated.

Rather than simply putting more resources into a system producing disappointing results, policymakers should focus on reforms that improve how public schools function.

One important factor remains missing from Wisconsin’s education dashboards: family structure.

Truth be told: Madison Metropolitan School District is as troubled as Milwaukee Public Schools is.

If Wisconsin children receive poor instruction, attend chaotic schools, and learn through weak, incoherent curricula, then industry and civil society will struggle accordingly.

Why do Wisconsin politicians want to close schools providing measurably great education for working-class kids?

Wisconsin’s own economics standards consistently teach the importance of prices, profits, competition, incentives and property rights, while one of the state’s leading candidates for governor campaigns without admitting or even seeming to understand their value.

What Wisconsinites need to know about how the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program works.

Public school district leaders are thinking about what scholarships from private donations through a new federal tax credit program the will do for their students.

“There’s never been a federal program that’s been as generous as this that the state didn’t opt in,” said Kooyenga.

A Wisconsin law requiring schools to inform parents when their students are struggling with reading is going unenforced in far too many districts.

Think of the failure of the $1.8 billion tax-and-spending deal between Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature as a second chance at better policy.

Milwaukee Public Schools, amid a fiscal crisis, should close 25 underutilized school buildings to free up wasted resources, says City Forward Collective.

Students learn less and earn less when they have less incentive to actually study in order to get top grades.

In 1969, nearly nine out of 10 American children lived in households with two married parents. By 2023, that figure had fallen to roughly six in 10.

Nine policy recommendations for Wisconsin schools to keep teaching talent by correcting the conditions that lead to teacher loss.

Facing a difficult market for hiring teaching talent, leaders of Wisconsin independent schools are developing useful strategies even as they look to the state for fundamental policy and financial reforms.

Wisconsin’s public school teachers are leaving their classrooms at higher rates than they have in more than 25 years. Here, we present their voices.

State aid represents just one component of public-school financing. Districts also levy property taxes and receive federal aid as well. All the sources combined yield a “comparative revenue per member” — that is, per pupil — figure the state publishes annually.

Good teachers are essential to school effectiveness and student achievement. What role does character formation play in keeping such educators in the classroom?