By Christian D’Andrea MacIver Institute Education Policy Analyst Students attending private schools in Milwaukee with publically funded vouchers showed stronger gains in achievement than their public school counterparts, according to the latest release from a University of Arkansas sponsored, and… Read More Official State of Wisconsin Study Confirms Choice Schools’ Success
MacIver News Service | February 21, 2012 [Madison, Wisc…] Last Friday, Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess denied a request by the Walker campaign for more time to review recall petitions. Niess had earlier granted Walker a twenty-day extension beyond… Read More Organizing, Challenging Recall Signatures a Daunting Task; Less than One Week to Go
By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute It turns out that perhaps not every parent is happy when teachers walk off the job to join a protest, or when teachers see a doctor on the Capitol Square… Read More Madison Schools Slow to Realize Need to Compete
By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute There is a reason that WTMJ’s Charlie Sykes is one of Wisconsin’s most popular radio talk show hosts. A successful talk show host gathers the information and presents it in… Read More Wigderson Reviews A Nation of Moochers
The Neenah Joint School District reduced its expenditures by $600,000 for the 2011-12 school year by offering its employees a voluntary health insurance buyout. Read More Neenah
by Christian D’Andrea MacIver Institute Education Policy Analyst The Department of Public Instruction presented their plans to free Wisconsin from No Child Left Behind mandates to the Joint Committee on Education Thursday afternoon. If successful, this waiver could help promote… Read More DPI Unveils No Child Left Behind Waiver, Asks for Reform in School Standards, Accountability
MacIver News Service | January 30, 2012 [Madison, Wisc…] The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board has not posted scanned copies of the Governor Walker recall petitions online despite promises to the citizens of Wisconsin that they would do so. GAB staff… Read More Stunner: Walker Recall Petitions NOT Available for Online Review
MacIver News Service | January 21, 2012 [Wauwatosa, Wis…] What started out as an idea on Facebook mushroomed into a full scale political rally on Saturday as more than 3,000 people braved frigid temps to attend a ‘Celebrate Walker’… Read More Thousands Turn Out for Pro-Walker Rally
By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute Governor Scott Walker’s Waste, Fraud and Abuse Commission (WFAC) has issued their report and found a potential $445 million in savings for Wisconsin’s taxpayers annually. But as if to prove… Read More Democrats Turn Waste, Fraud and Abuse Commission into Partisan Issue
by Christian D’Andrea MacIver Institute Education Policy Analyst Milwaukee’s charter schools outperform the regular public school standard when it comes to reading – but these returns appear to diminish as students progress, according to state data Milwaukee’s charter schools have… Read More Charter School Data Shows Gains for Elementary School Students in Milwaukee – but Effects Trail Off in High School