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…
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…
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…
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…
To win the vote is merely to start the work. As the Wisconsin Legislature wraps up a biennial budget that has both ups and downs — it spends much more…
Seeing how often Wisconsinites have been told that public school districts are starving, it isn’t surprising that when asked to guess how much tax money districts spent per student, they…
Among the bills Republicans are considering in the Legislature is one eliminating the last remnants of Wisconsin’s personal property tax. The bill, AB2, sponsored by Rep. Dan Knodl (R-Germantown), would…
The idea of school choice is so popular in Wisconsin that it raises a question. And it is popular. A new poll last month asked 700 likely voters, “Do you…
When Jalisa Hawkins decided to transfer her daughter from one Beloit public school to another, the state cut the sum taxpayers spend on the child’s education by about 40% for…
In need of quiet solitude not long ago, I did the obvious: I got on Milwaukee’s streetcar, The Hop. It did not disappoint: In all, five people Hopped on, then…
Patrick McIlheran