From the desk of Mike Nichols
Mike NicholsAn update on our 2023-2024 legislative victories in Madison The Badger Institute’s policy work, journalism and advocacy helped spur pivotal changes this past legislative session to give Wisconsinites more freedom…
Chronic Absenteeism remains extremely high in districts across Wisconsin
Milwaukee still the worst while Elkhorn shows how to keep kids in school Years after the pandemic, chronic student absenteeism rates remain distressingly high across much of Wisconsin in both…
State representative calling for audit of the Milwaukee Public Schools
Donovan critical of test scores, absenteeism, underutilized buildings, unspent funds and tax hike State Rep. Bob Donovan is seeking a state audit of the Milwaukee Public Schools and says seniors…
Many MPS students are chronically absent
Many — if not most — kids counted as enrolled in the Milwaukee Public Schools miss at least three weeks of class throughout the year. In some schools, nearly all…
Another reason to vote no on MPS’s big $252 million referendum
The Milwaukee Public Schools Board of Directors has scheduled an April referendum asking voters to authorize an additional $252 million in funding — a tough sell in a district with…
Lock up the tortfeasors!
And other slogans that will never win you a judicial election An explanation of why Wisconsin needs business courts As of last August, there were 261 circuit court judges in…
A practical path out of poverty
Education, work, marriage, then kids — still the best, though not only, sequence It’s hard to rise up — especially when you’re a single mom with a newborn — but…
Badger Institute’s response to Wisconsin Right Now
Jessica McBride and Jim Piwowarczyk noted in a Wisconsin Right Now piece they ran Monday that Jeremiah Mosteller, a Badger Institute visiting fellow working on our “real facts” policy briefs,…
The real world intrudes for a moment at UW-Madison
How about some real diversity instead of the DEI sham that demonstrably does not help Black students? I don’t want to get in the way of the decent idea finally…
Government gets its cut of the Christmas tree trade
And it came to pass that the whole world should be taxed (or charged a fee) — unfortunately When it comes to Christmas, you gotta love little cities like Abbotsford.…