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IRG Releases Transparency Tool for $1.49B in Federal K-12 COVID Relief
Calls on legislature to conduct oversight of spending plans
Delafield, WI. – Today, the Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) released an interactive database for taxpayers to see how Wisconsin school districts are allocating the unprecedented $1.49 billion of ...
If the core mission of the Governor, the state’s chief executive officer, is to operationalize the functions of government and manage the bureaucracy, then government in Madison no longer works the way it was intended.
Over the last four years, executive branch agencies have racked up major backlogs and failed to provide basic care for ...
Today, IRG is releasing the last of its Wisconsin State Agency 101 Briefings, highlighting everything you need to know about the Department of Transportation, the Department of Children and Families, and the Wisconsin Technical College System. This concludes our Agency 101 series, explaining the basics of the 20 largest state agencies in ...
Last Thursday, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction released test score data from 2021-2022, the best indicators we have of student learning loss from COVID and school closures. Here are some initial takeaways from Quinton Klabon, IRG’s Senior Research Director:
1. Statewide reading went down from 41% to 37% college-ready. In other ...
The numbers are in: our students are not rebounding from the Evers administration's school shutdowns.
14,000 fewer Wisconsin children can read well enough for college, a 4% drop. 103,000 kids across the state can't even read at grade level. 9 Milwaukee Public Schools don't have a single student proficient in math, and their best schools have ...
Click here to view a printable version of our state agency budget analysis.
MADISON, WI – Today the Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) released an analysis of the 2023-2025 budget requests submitted this month by state agencies, finding that the proposed requests would increase government spending by more than $7.5 billion.
At a ...