Apr 24, 2024 | Wisconsin Voices Blog
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 protest the surprise expulsion of...
Apr 22, 2024 | Wisconsin Voices Blog
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 2026. On Tuesday, the board will...
Apr 11, 2024 | Uncategorized, Wisconsin Voices Blog
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 public-sector unions and...
Apr 10, 2024 | Uncategorized, Wisconsin Voices Blog
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 vetoes issued before the Easter...
Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorized, Wisconsin Voices Blog
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. Simply put, there are high-quality...
Oct 24, 2023 | Announcements, Wisconsin Voices Blog
Mental Health Care Bill Introduced in the Legislature Legislation removes occupational licensure barriers that stand in the way of Wisconsinites having access to care WHAT IS IT This week, legislation was introduced by Representative Gustafson (R-Neenah) and Senator...
