MacIver News Service – [Madison, Wisconsin] The idea of Milwaukee’s mayor taking control of MPS didn’t sit well with Representative Polly Williams, and a new plan essentially handing key decision making for the district over to the state’s superintendent is… Read More Key Democrat Opposed to Education Proposals
UPDATED 9:15am – 4/12/10 MacIver News Service – [Madison, Wisc.] Democratic lawmakers and key players in the education policy arena may have struck a deal in an attempt to resolve two major education proposals, according to documents obtained by MacIver… Read More Secret Meetings Yield Education Policy Breakthroughs
MacIver News Service – [Madison, Wisc…] Students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) perform no worse than their peers in that city’s public schools despite costing taxpayers significantly less, according to the third year results of an ongoing independent… Read More School Choice Study Affirms ValueAdvocates Encouraged by Findings
This week’s installment of “That’s Debatable,” is a discussion of what a potential U.S. Senate run by former Wisconsin Goernor Tommy Thompson would mean for this state. Each week, the website WisOpinion.com asks two veterans of Wisconsin policy and politics,… Read More Debating TGT
The Wisconsin Legislature raised few eyebrows during the budget process last summer when it cut almost a billion dollars from aid to local school districts, and then back filled it with $789 million dollars in stimulus money. Many now say… Read More Schools Running Off Funding Cliff
I’m just going to come out and say it. Attn. Governor Jim Doyle and DPI Superintendent Tony Evers: We Told You So. In fact, we told you so, again, and again and again… Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida,… Read More Wisconsin was Bound to Fail in Race to the Top Quest
[Madison, Wisc…] The Free Market Voice for Wisconsin has a couple of new homes. The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, a free market think tank, has opened a new office across from the State Capitol in Madison and… Read More MacIver Institute Opens Office on Capitol Square, Launches Redesigned Website
Cory Liebmann, now widely recognized as liberal Wisconsin’s number one fisherman, is at it again. Fresh off his quest for dirt on State Representative Leah Vukmir, this ‘researcher’ has his eyes now set on…the Mayor of Tomah? Perhaps it makes… Read More More Fishing, Now in Tomah
This week’s installment of “That’s Debatable,” is a debate over the recent study by the University of Minnesota’s John Robert Warren, PhD., which found that had MPS graduation rates equaled those for MPCP students in the classes of 2003 through… Read More Debating the School Choice Study
The Wisconsin Open Records Law and the Federal Freedom of Information Act are powerful tools for reporters and the general public who believe the government that serves them should be more transparent. Just this month, journalists’ open records requests have… Read More Liberals Fishing for Dirt on Vukmir