It’s simple: parents know best
Patrick McIlheranParental choice and parental guidance are essential Conservatives are sometimes faulted for having one answer, school choice, any time education comes up. To be clear: School choice, the power of…
Could Wisconsin spend less, live better and be freer?
Our widely disliked and perennially foolish minimum markup law may at last go away Wisconsin has, in state Sen. Rob Hutton, a mad-eyed optimist, for the Brookfield Republican imagines that…
Wisconsin ranks 14th in attempt to foretell social mobility
Index uses existing measures of economy, social capital and other factors to predict opportunity; we trail Minnesota but beat Illinois A new study predicting which states are best equipped for social…
In Act 10 fight, unions don’t just want you to pay — they want power
Huge taxpayer savings are at risk, but beyond that is the question of who controls government, voters or organizers The unions’ lawsuit to overturn Wisconsin’s “Act 10” 2011 labor reforms…
Entrepreneurial dough: Just what stagnant Wisconsin kneads to rise up
Don’t forget to be thankful for the risk-takers Did you enjoy home-baked bread at Thanksgiving and think to yourself that you’d have it more often if only baking weren’t so…
The poor, powerless casualties of Wisconsin’s school choice lawsuit
Two-thirds of children whose schools are under attack by Minocqua beer baron are racial or ethnic minorities, all are poor, many are very likely his fellow Democrats In the lawsuit…
Good riddance to the ‘one way of teaching’
America has changed its mind on what public education looks like, thanks to parents who demanded school choice “The Death of Public School,” proclaimed the title of a widely touted…
Hard to win over Wisconsinites if your only argument is ‘shut up’
The American tradition of free speech runs up against rage at colleges, but there are signs of hope It was startling, but surely not surprising, when protesters disrupted an online…
What if Wisconsin stopped making childcare pointlessly costly?
Legislative reforms mesh with recommendations in Badger Institute paper Sometimes, the most helpful thing a government can do is to stop being “helpful.” Gov. Tony Evers may not get this,…
‘Equity’ speakers talk of revolution; Wisconsin parents just want their kids to read
If the system’s so rotten, why shouldn’t kids escape? It’s plain that many of the prominent radicals in an ongoing Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction speaker series about racial “equity”…