OUR POLICY SOLUTIONS ON K-12 AND HIGHER EDUCATION
The following article featuring Quinton Klabon, IRG's Senior Research Director, was published by The74 on Tuesday, July 18, 2023.Three years ago, the nation’s schools received the first installment in what would become the largest infusion ever of federal funds for education — $190 billion to not only safeguard against COVID, but reverse the ...
IRG’s CIO Exposes UW-Madison's Unconstitutional Faculty Hiring Program
Report Highlighted in Wall Street Journal Exposes TOP Program and demands answers and full transparency from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
WHAT IS IT: IRG’s Center of Investigative Oversight’s report highlights new records, obtained by IRG, that thoroughly ...
WHAT HAPPENED
Since its January release, the Institute for Reforming Government’s (IRG) K-12 COVID Relief ESSER III Audit has driven statewide momentum for financial transparency and made swifter action for students front-page news. IRG was the first Wisconsin entity to track $1.49 billion of federal relief funding intended to pull kids ...
Click here to find a print-ready version of the "Tackling the Teacher Shortage" policy solution.
We have a teacher shortage, but we did it to ourselves. College’s costs and complications encumber teachers with debt, don’t prepare them for actual classrooms, and keep the profession monolithic. This leads to worse outcomes for ...
IRG’s K-12 COVID Relief Audit Forces Public DPI Response
IRG Responds to State Supt. Jill Underly on Continued Opacity: “The Only Thing that Matters Is Kids”
Delafield, WI - The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) today issued a letter to State Superintendent Jill Underly expressing disappointment over the Department of Public ...
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 ...