Institute launching social media campaign opposing request for $252 million The Milwaukee Public Schools district is badly mismanaged, has already received enormous sums of money from both a prior referendum…
Separate constitutional amendment on veto power also advances Wisconsin voters will decide on primary day, Aug. 9, whether the state Constitution should be amended to give back to the Legislature…
Capacity considered as district seeks $252 million in April referendum According to the Milwaukee Public Schools’ own figures filed with the state, at least 20 of the district’s schools had…
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…
Wisconsin’s smallest incorporated village is on a hill, and in a valley, too. Third in a series of profiles of persevering small towns in the Badger State. Yuba Fire Department…
“At some point, don’t you have to say ‘No’?” How in good conscience, former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent Bill Andrekopoulos wonders, can the school district ask taxpayers for $252 million…
Program that includes higher-income Native American families is result of virtue-signaling News comes of unexpected wrinkles in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s plan to prove its virtue with free rides for…
A Badger Institute reader offered the following response to the story, Deeply rural Millville isn’t coming back — and likes it that way. I have to say I was surprised…
Unlocking potential for thousands of children The news of a $100 million investment in a new school on metro Milwaukee’s north side by St. Augustine Preparatory Academy, a school participating…
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…
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