Reports
How to keep good teachers in the classroom
Last of a Badger Institute series about teacher loss in Wisconsin schools and what policy makers and administrators can do about it. Teachers who have fled a school or the profession altogether — and there are many of them in…
Report: “A Review of Metro’s Regional Passenger Rail Futures Study”
By Randal O’Toole March 2026 Executive Summary In 2024, the Oregon legislature Senate Bill 4701 (Section 503) directed Metro to study the Portland area’s 200 miles of freight rail corridors as potential regional passenger or…
In talent squeeze, independent schools respond — and seek relief
Drawn by mission, kept by coaching Part of an ongoing Badger Institute series about teacher loss in Wisconsin schools and what policy makers and administrators can do about it. Facing an increasingly difficult market for…
Teachers in flight – Badger Institute
What’s really driving educators out of Wisconsin’s classrooms Wisconsin’s public school teachers are leaving their classrooms at higher rates than they have in more than 25 years — some to other school districts, some out of…
Teachers in flight – Badger Institute
What’s really driving educators out of Wisconsin’s classrooms Wisconsin’s public school teachers are leaving their classrooms at higher rates than they have in more than 25 years — some to other school districts, some out of…
Metro’s Plan for Making Housing More Expensive
By Randal O’Toole High housing prices in the Portland area led to a legislative mandate for Metro, Portland’s regional planning agency, and city governments to develop a strategy to make housing affordable again. Metro’s…
Seven Reasons Not To Raise Taxes in New York
Despite the robust growth of state revenues in recent years, many of New York’s elected officials are pushing to further increase the tax burden on the state’s residents and businesses. New York City’s newly elected mayor,…
A Badger Institute policy report: Character education and teacher retention
Benefits of character education can be two-fold Wisconsinites should be concerned the state’s growing crisis of disappearing educators — a phenomenon the Badger Institute has been taking a closer look at. Multiple studies…
Ninety New York Educators Receive $300k+ in Annual Pay
Ninety employees from New York’s school districts (outside New York City) received more than $300,000 during fiscal year 2025, according to new salary data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s transparency…
Newly Retired NYPD Retirees Average $100,000+ in Pension
Newly retired1 “full career”2 members of the New York Police Department (NYPD) collected an average of $103,859, according to new data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s transparency website. The data,…
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