By: Libby Sobic
For the last twenty-four years, four public schools have been educating every K4-8th grade student who has walked through their doors, serving a total of nearly 2,000 students a year. These schools have been ranked as some of the highest-performing schools in the City of ...
Will Flanders, Research Director WILL
Libby Sobic, Education Policy Director, WILL
Last week in the Journal Sentinel, former MPS President Larry Miller wrote a response to Northwestern CEO John Schlifske’s recent piece on the educational landscape in Milwaukee. Using the recent failure to ...
Will Flanders, Ph.D.
Recently, Milwaukee College Prep (MCP) charter schools and Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) failed to make an agreement for continued authorization. This ends a ten year relationship between MCP and MPS, and once again highlights the horrific environment for public ...
Will Flanders, Research Director
Yesterday, the Assembly Committee on Education held an informational hearing where the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and the Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) attempted to explain school financing in the state of Wisconsin. This was a critical hearing ...
By: Will Flanders and Libby Sobic
For many years, Wisconsin has reserved the position of state superintendent of schools for someone steeped in union politics and promising the status quo. But over the past year, COVID-19 has turned many such situations on their heads and polarized politics ...
Anthony LoCoco, Deputy Counsel
The United States Senate is considering whether to pass the Equality Act, a bill designed to prevent perceived discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in a wide range of settings such as public accommodations, employment, and ...