Our Reformer of the month is the Founder and President of Bridge Builders Milwaukee, Dr. Kurt Owens! Bridge Builders Milwaukee’s mission is to, “inspire inner-city innovation that will holistically transform neighborhoods one block at a ...
EXPLAIN IT TO ME: MPS charter attack on the run!
WHAT HAPPENED?
About 60 staff, parents, and students from Carmen, a higher-performing charter school network in Milwaukee, came to yesterday’s Milwaukee Public Schools board meeting to ...
April 22, 2024
WHAT HAPPENED?
As people were heading off to their weekend plans, IRG notified local leaders that the Milwaukee Public Schools board will begin a process that would kick 2 Carmen charter schools out of their buildings in ...
Explain It to Me: Non-Partisan Act 10 Research: Good for Kids, Good for High-Performing Teachers
Research Paper Awarded Prestigious American Economic Association Prize
What Happened
2011 Act 10, which changed bargaining rights for ...
Explain it to me: Evers embraces teacher apprenticeships, but veto will slow down progress
His pilot leaves out Milwaukee, Madison, and rural Wisconsin; IRG-backed bill covered entire state
Veto slows progress
As part of a number of ...
School choice is working!
On Tuesday, October 10th, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released test score data from 2022-2023.
Now, IRG has combed through all 1,895 tested K-8 schools to show what’s working where. ...