PolitiFact sorts only some of the “truth” on voucher schools, leaves out key objections to program’s expansion
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Private school voucher expansion: A growing taxpayer-funded entitlement
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: A Failure
Infinite Campus likely to be Wisconsin statewide school information system (Updated)
Grandparents understand the importance of funding public schools, too. Wisconsin is marching inexorably down a path toward two separate publicly funded education systems for our K-12 students. One is our traditional public schools; the other, private voucher schools largely funded by taxpayer dollars. The school voucher program began in 1990 under Gov. Tommy Thompson [...]
by John Forester Many observers have called Gov.Scott Walker’s proposal to expand private school vouchers bad education policy. I agree. Today I would like to address voucher expansion from the perspective of fiscal policy. If voucher advocates are successful in expanding private school vouchers in this budget, vouchers will eventually become one of the largest [...]
Question: When is $129 million not $129 million? Answer: When it is the additional aid Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker promised to send to the state’s public schools. Despite the Governor’s claimed increase for 2013-15─an anemic and inadequate one percent even if true─it is really only $39 million …. a paltry half-percent increase or $44.83 per [...]
In an unusual Sunday morning release, Governor Scott Walker unveiled a funding proposal for K-12 public education that will weaken schools and diminish opportunities for students. “Two years ago the Governor took $1.6 billion in educational opportunities away from kids,” said Tom Beebe, project director of Opportunity to Learn-Wisconsin. “Those tragic cuts came on the [...]
Stevens Point – School Funding Reform for Wisconsin, a grassroots community organization based in Stevens Point, is continuing its challenge to state legislators to change the way Wisconsin’s public schools are funded. “Last month we urged state legislators to approve and enact Superintendent Evers’ plan
The upcoming release of the governor’s proposed state budget draws our attention to the future, and in particular that of Wisconsin’s children. As a state we have valued a tradition of offering educational opportunities to all of our students, whatever their circumstances or dreams might be. What our past has taught us and what we [...]
Have you ever felt that you fell through the looking glass hand-in-hand with Alice to a place where up is down, north is really south, and wrong is actually right? If you watched, heard, or read about
This is a guest blog by Angelina Cruz, a teacher in the Racine Unified School District. We live in an era in which the perceptions of public education have been formed based upon political ideologues bent on reform by means of accountability measures. These accountability measures in large part tie both school and teacher performance [...]
Recently, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has been touting his balanced budget and the surplus money he put into a rainy day fund. I have a hard time celebrating this news as the Janesville school district continues to face dire economic issues …. rainy day fund or no
The Wisconsin Department of Administration recently sent out a press release praising Gov. Scott Walker for his leadership in making the “largest deposit to our Rainy Day Fund in state history.” You can read the
There is a ray of hope for Wisconsin’s 800,000-plus public school children looking for quality educational opportunities. After 20 years of hemorrhaging resources to a broken school-funding system and a state budget that slashed $1.6 billion from public school resources, at least a partial payback for all of that pain and suffering might be on [...]
As I travel around Wisconsin, it’s evident that a lot of people still believe Gov. Scott Walker when he says public schools and children are better off—or at least no worse off—since he brought us Act 10 and his 2011-13 state budget. As a quick reminder, Act 10 gives school boards the ability to ask [...]
The author of this blog is Thomas J. Mertz is a Madison parent and advocate for improved educational opportunities. He is a founder of For All Madison Students and other local groups and is an active member of Opportunity to Learn-Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools. A version of this post
If our children are going to learn in school and succeed in life they need
It’s an indisputable fact: Public education is the great leveler in our economy and our society. If we put in the resources up front we will get the results we all want: Successful young adults, an economy that works, and a civil society we can be proud of. At the very time Wisconsin’s students need [...]
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