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- Crucial Badger-supported housing bill passes through Senate
- School levy tax credits reward big spenders at the expense of frugal districts
- Lawmakers split on how to keep WisEye broadcasting
- Medicaid mission-creeps its way into the housing business
- Time for UW-Madison to do away with ethnic studies requirement
- A foolish law wages war against homemade shindigs
- An estate tax would harm Wisconsin’s economy
- Assembly clears bill to tackle fears of data center spiking power rates
Browsing: K-12 Education
If schools want to impose belief systems on students, parents should have the right to choose their schools.
Milwaukee’s school choice program shows that letting parents choose a moral ecology is how differing beliefs can coexist.
Scarlett Johnson explains what drove her to act on behalf of her local schools, and why more parents should do so.
In response to falling standards, former Mequon-Thiensville school board member launches charter school
Scarlett Johnson sat down with Badger Institute Policy Director Patrick McIlheran this week to explain what drove her to act on behalf of her local schools, and why more parents should do so.
In response to falling standards, former Mequon-Thiensville school board member launches charter school
Kids are reaping the consequences of school shutdowns
There is never one cure-all for complex societal problems like poverty or morally, economically and emotionally untethered children. The first thing is to recognize the problem for what it is. The numbers make that easy.
In Burlington, as elsewhere, families wake up to a revolution being inflicted on children.
Scaring taxpayers about school choice income limits is arrogant.
The full presentation of “Critical Race Theory and the Miseducation of America’s Youth” presented by the Center for the American Experiment and the Badger Institute.
The polling shows more and more parents want that opportunity for their kids – and more and more other Wisconsinites believe the right thing to do is to give it to them now.
Reforms would expand oversight of federal funds, school and health care options, increase workforce participation.
Governor’s veto lays bare the doubletalk of the CRT crowd.
Unless kids are killed or maimed, gun battles at school are just police blotter items.
Milwaukee Public Schools are closed again, further depriving students of the classroom instruction they desperately need.
If you’ve recently filled out a school admission form, read a story in the local paper, or listened to a white politician talk about Latinos, then you may have heard the term Latinx.
The fury of parents aimed at local school boards across the country was stoked this week by a government whistleblower who says the FBI set up a system to begin tracking those angry exchanges at the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland
The former governor reflects and responds to his critics
With $800 million at stake, it’s time to finally dismantle the School Board and give control to a reform-minded leader

