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The policy decisions state policymakers make in the months ahead will have far-reaching implications for how quickly jobs and wages are restored in Wisconsin.

Suspension policies advanced by the race-grievance complex harm both students and teachers

Six years after policy began, classrooms are out of control, teachers are afraid and students – black and white – are suffering

Wisconsin needs criminal justice data collection and reporting legislation

Measure creates universal recognition, waives fees for low-income workers, expands opportunity for ex-offenders

With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses

Relentless bureaucratic creep undermines competition and hurts consumers

Policymakers will need to look to reforms to address overcrowding issues

Governments are instrumental in wars, natural disasters and, we’ve found, pandemics.

Accepting out-of-state credentials should continue after the crisis ends

A statewide and county-by-county analysis

Cursive writing benefits learning and students’ brains

Outdated Wisconsin law hampers electric automaker’s direct-sales business model

Plan would take into account regional risk factors and let consumers decide

Move would stress support and health care systems throughout the state

Wisconsinites rush to help neighbors in need during crisis, prove fundamental goodness of civil society

Highway funding, which relies on the gas tax, will be hard hit as fuel sales decline

Wisconsin’s minimum markup law is particularly egregious when Wisconsinites are suffering

Wisconsin would be worse off had responsible budgeting not produced healthy surplus, rainy day fund
By David Fladeboe
April 6, 2020

In wake of COVID-19, telehealth regulations have been loosened; those changes should remain even after crisis is over