Entrepreneurial dough: Just what stagnant Wisconsin kneads to rise up
Patrick McIlheranDon’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”…
State school bureaucracy brings in high-profile leftists to teach Wisconsin teachers about ‘equity’
DPI series has history of speakers peddling ‘critical’ view of race in America As part of a training program, an initiative of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is bringing…
Increased choice funding — and Ramirez family’s generosity — will help thousands flourish
The first fruits of Wisconsin’s school choice victory can be replicated Gus Ramirez softens nothing when diagnosing Milwaukee’s situation. “Minority kids are getting screwed,” he said, “and they’re getting screwed…
One Badger Institute staffer’s personal experience with the Kia Boyz crime wave
The healthy fear Milwaukee needs to curb unbridled car theft You know those decals that make your car look like it’s been hit by gunfire? My family’s car has something…
Reactions to Evers’ veto show how a flat income tax frustrates a divide-and-ransack strategy
After he kicked millions of taxpayers in the head last week, Tony Evers seemed a little defensive. The Wisconsin governor suggested to an interviewer that if middle-class taxpayers were accidental…