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Facts to help you decide whether Wisconsin children should be eligible for donor-funded education scholarships
Many American schoolchildren will benefit from sizable scholarships once a federal tax credit of up to $1,700 kicks in next year for donors. Wisconsin children, as it stands right now, will not be eligible. Here’s what…
Food co-op seen as viable, more likely option than government-funded grocery store in Milwaukee
Co-ops take time but are sustainable and avoid government pitfalls With little evidence that government-funded grocery stores are a lasting and effective answer in America’s inner cities, talk is turning to a classic civil…
Public school leaders look forward to possible private donations for scholarships
Giving spurred by new tax credit can go wherever donors see a good cause A potentially huge new stream of money seems headed toward American schoolchildren — scholarships funded by private donors who are spurred on by a new …
Wisconsin eventually will opt in to donor bonanza for schools, business leader predicts
No upside to letting credit-spurred donations here flow elsewhere, says Kooyenga Every current candidate for governor of Wisconsin either favors or at least has not yet rejected the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, despite…
Wisconsin students who struggle with reading are let down by unenforced literacy reforms, say advocates
Parents don’t want ‘to just sit and read through state statutes’ A three-year-old Wisconsin law requiring schools to inform parents when their students are struggling with reading is going unenforced in far too many…
Failure of tax-and-schools deal offers chance to do better
Instead of one-time rebates and school funding patches, tax and spending reform Think of the failure of the $1.8 billion tax-and-spending deal between Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature as a second chance at better policy.…
Big federal bucks so far produce a paltry 21 EV charging stations in Wisconsin
Brief pause didn’t help, nor does weak market for electric cars; private sector efforts outstrip government For several years now, Wisconsin officials have been handing out millions of dollars in federal funds, aiming to…
Behind the curtain, Evers Administration diverts taxpayer money to fund environmental bureaucracies
Ousted Wausau mayor among the hires The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature. Gov. Tony Evers created the…
Socialists’ Milwaukee golden age and the light it sheds now
Socialism is having a politically effervescent moment: From a self-professed socialist winning New York’s mayoralty to leftist members of Wisconsin’s Legislature forming a “Socialist caucus” for the first time since 1931, the…
Milwaukee Public Schools, facing crises, should close 25 schools, report warns
Wisconsin’s largest school district, amid a fiscal crisis, should close 25 underutilized school buildings to free up wasted resources, says a Milwaukee-based education advocacy group — even as the Milwaukee Public Schools has…
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