Another application for the federal Race to the Top program, another rejected application. Wisconsin has been rejected twice now for a program to reward educational reforms. Worse, the state has not been a finalist in either round. Race to the… Read More Less Consensus, PleaseWEAC Support Weakens Reform Efforts
MacIver News Service | July 30, 2010 [Madison, Wisc…] Voters in nearly half of Wisconsin’s counties will have an opportunity to sound off on the exceedingly controversial practice of raiding the state’s transportation fund to pay for general state services…. Read More Taxpayers Get Chance to Sound Off on Transportation Fund Raids
[Madison, Wisc…] A new report by the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy shows that more than seventy five percent of Milwaukee’s K-12 students actually exercise some form of educational choice every year. “Critics have characterized School Choice as… Read More 3 in 4 Milwaukee Students Opt Out of Neighborhood Public School
UPDATE: WUWM ran a four minute feature on our Educational Choice Census. You can listen to it here. New figures suggest that over 75 percent of Milwaukee’s K-12 population attend a school other than their traditional public neighborhood school, according… Read More MacIver Educational Choice Census for City of Milwaukee
In the state that pioneered the voucher movement with the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program in 1990, more than 25 percent of Wisconsin’s K-12 students now exercise some form of school choice every day. Our first Educational Choice Census indicates… Read More 2010 MacIver Wisconsin Educational Choice Census
Each week, the Website WisOpinion.com asks our own Brian Fraley to debate Scot Ross from One Wisconsin Now in an exchange of emails. The topics are chosen by the two participants and the views expressed reflect their own personal opinions… Read More Debating Education and the Bailout
MacIver News Service – [Milwaukee, Wisc…] This week the Milwaukee Public School District sent layoff notices to 700 educators, including 500 teachers. However, less than 200 people turned out for a rally Monday protesting the cuts, and most of those… Read More Union Tactics Hurt Younger Teachers
MacIver News Service–[Milwaukee, Wisc…] Milwaukee Public Schools might never be able to reach the standards of No Child Left Behind, according to school board directors who spoke to the MacIver Institute. On Tuesday the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction announced… Read More Milwaukee Public Schools Unlikely to Keep up with Rising Standards
Like many of you this last weekend, I spent much of it catching up on the “to do” list. No, it does not include getting a gift for Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. Somehow I was left off the guest list again…. Read More Trial Lawyers Celebrate June 1st as Wisconsin Consumers Pay More
In this March print and video report, we introduced you to the term ‘funding cliff.’ The Wisconsin Legislature raised few eyebrows during the budget process last summer when it cut almost a billion dollars from aid to local school districts,… Read More Solution to one-time money funding cliff is…one-time money, one more time?