PolitiFact sorts only some of the “truth” on voucher schools, leaves out key objections to program’s expansion
79 MPS students earn national German language awards
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 [...]
Director Michael Bonds was unanimously re-elected Tuesday evening as president of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors for the 2013-14 Board year. Director Meagan Holman was unanimously elected vice president. She replaces Director Larry Miller in that role. The Tuesday administrative meeting was the first Board meeting for newly-elected Board directors Tatiana Joseph, who represents [...]
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 [...]
It’s budget season in Wisconsin, which means two things: One, the histrionics are dialed up to 11 (j’accuse, you say, and you’re right); and two, everyone I know and care about in education in Wisconsin is furious. Two years ago, Governor Scott Walker’s first biennial budget was devastating to schools. In it, the revenue cap [...]
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 [...]
By Amy Traynor We are in a time of great change for our public schools. We are adopting new standards, implementing new testing and accountability initiatives, and implementing all kinds of other reforms. At the same time, districts across the state are having to ask voters for more resources through referendums because of state and [...]
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We all had a good laugh last week when Wisconsin State Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) put out a press release asking, exasperatedly, “Why Must We Still Hear About Kwanzaa?” I am not sure exactly how it is that Grothman finds Kwanzaa to be such an unbearable burden that he has to drag himself to [...]
For orthopedic surgeon Sean Adelman – a father of three, including Dev, a high-school age daughter with Down syndrome – life lessons are not the exclusive province of the young. “As a dad, I have often been reminded of the poet William Wordsworth and his line, ‘The child is father of the man,’ ” says [...]
During a long meeting Thursday night, the Milwaukee Board of School Directors authorized a boost to starting teacher salary for new Milwaukee Public Schools teachers in a move to make the district more competitive as MPS seeks 700 new teachers for the upcoming school year. New teachers and administrators will also have 24 months instead [...]
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 [...]
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