Governor Walker’s bait-and-switch budget has nothing new for public school children
Question: When is $129 million not $129 million? Answer: When it is the additional aid Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker promised to send to the…
Read MoreUncategorized
Walker’s budget is a school killer; legislative Republicans propose a severe beating instead
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…
Read MoreGovernor’s budget starves public schools while choice schools prosper
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…
Read MoreCentral Wisconsin school funding reform community group gains support from around the state
Stevens Point – School Funding Reform for Wisconsin, a grassroots community organization based in Stevens Point, is continuing its challenge to state legislators to…
Read MoreEducation leaders call on state to renew Wisconsin’s commitment to public schools
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…
Read MoreInfinite Campus likely to be Wisconsin statewide school information system (Updated)
In an offer letter (pdf) written Friday, Feb. 1, Wisconsin’s Bureau of Procurement (no, I didn’t know we had one, either) named Minnesota-based Infinite…
Read MoreState-of-the-state takes us on a wild ride through the looking glass
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…
Read MoreIs there a new McCarthyism afoot?
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…
Read MoreWe can strengthen public schools by providing all kids the opportunities they need to learn
This is a guest blog by Angelina Cruz, a teacher in the Racine Unified School District. We live in an era in which the…
Read MoreIt just isn’t a waterbed if there isn’t any water in it
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…
Read More