Browsing: K-12 Education

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?

Wisconsin’s count of 421 school districts has been mostly steady for decades, but it’s far below the figures of a century ago, when the Badger State was divided into more than 7,000 school districts.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of education policy revealed a grave misunderstanding of school choice as practiced here — and in the process slandered the Wisconsinites who educate more than 60,000 children.

Nearly 50 years after the U.S. government banned lead-based paint, Milwaukee Public Schools officials have again been trying to cover up or remove the toxic substance that parents likely presume was dealt with long ago.

As math proficiency continues to decline in Wisconsin schools, the Legislature is considering a plan to improve numeracy.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is facing a crisis of confidence after accusations of gutting academic standards, manipulating report cards, slacking on fiscal oversight and bungling oversight of sexual misconduct among teachers.