Browsing: School Choice

Wisconsin’s newly elected are not there to serve special interests or serve donors. They are elected to serve the children and taxpayers, young parents and workers, retirees and twenty-year-olds alike.

Wisconsin’s next Legislature and governor should work to ensure that more Wisconsin families can access the education they believe best serves their children.

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.

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

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.

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.

A family’s huge bet on bettering the lives of thousands of Milwaukee children is moving a step closer to launch as St. Augustine Preparatory School starts taking names for its $104 million north campus in Glendale.

When asked about whether Evers would wave his hand to let Wisconsin taxpayers use a new federal tax credit for education-related donations, the governor slammed the door.

Gov. Tony Evers’ refusal to let Wisconsinites donate to public and private schools by using a federal tax credit is baffling.

School choice is 41 percent more effective in Racine, and in the rest of Wisconsin, money going to choice is spent 33 percent more effectively than in district schools.

There are 541 days until the next Legislature’s sworn in, and there’s plenty of unfinished business

“Decoupling” is an excellent way to simplify Wisconsin school choice funding and eliminate choice’s impact on property taxpayers.

If Brittany Kinser wins Wisconsin’s race for state school superintendent, it would be the first victory over union-backed candidates since 1981.

The number of students enrolled in private school in Wisconsin via choice programs increased by about 3,800 in 2024.

Enrollment headcounts of children receiving a publicly funded education in Wisconsin this school year continued the trends of the past 20 years.

The winner of Wisconsin’s race for school superintendent will have far-reaching powers to advance changes and improvements in education.

If you’re puzzled why progressive commentators seem so threatened by a school choice program with one-sixteenth of the state’s pupils, with 2% of Madison’s kids, and with a taxpayer outlay per child that’s only 60% of what Madison’s government-run system spends to get its certifiably worse results, perhaps our answer lies in the upcoming referendum ask…

DeAngelis spoke with the Badger Institute’s policy director, Patrick McIlheran, about the ideas in his book and about the future of school choice both in Wisconsin and nationwide.