Browsing: K-12 Education

The Badger Institute has been a champion of school choice since our inception as the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute in the late 1980s.

Elita Williams is grateful for the opportunity to select the best schools for her kids.

A Milwaukee mom’s take on why more parents need educational choice.

Students in Milwaukee’s public high schools who want a better life and know that school is their only way up are being battered, assaulted and exposed to gunfire or other reckless conduct on a daily basis.

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.