Milwaukee’s list of half-used school buildings rises to 21
Patrick McIlheranBig high school using only 39% of its capacity The number of school buildings controlled by Milwaukee Public Schools that are most dramatically underutilized totals 21, a look at the…
Badger Institute urges “no” vote on MPS referendum
Badger InstituteInstitute 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…
Voters will decide if legislators get say over federal spending
Mark LisheronSeparate 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…
Number of half-used MPS buildings up to at least 20
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 MPS students are chronically absent
Mike NicholsMany — 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…
Where the hell is Yuba?
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…
Former MPS superintendent critical of $252 million referendum
“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…
UW skirting law and undermining racial equality
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…
Letter to the editor: Millville article was not about free markets
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…
The amazing $100 million story of Aug Prep and school choice
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…