OUR POLICY SOLUTIONS ON K-12 AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Superintendent Underly’s State of Education Address described a world where diversity and equity consultants were schools’ superheroes in lieu of teachers and parents, where the neediest kids got extra help instead of being locked out of their schools, and where Wisconsin spent pennies on education rather than being 17th nationally. In the ...
As Wisconsin students head back to the classroom this month, parents face a stark reality: other states handled COVID better and our kids are now way behind. Our top students no longer compare to the nation’s best, and even more troubling, our struggling students face greater challenges than ever.
How bad is the problem?
Well, what have ...
Madison, Wis. — The Institute for Reforming Government has hired Quinton Klabon to be Senior Research Director to develop K-12 and higher education policy solutions for Wisconsin. He can be reached at [email protected]
Quinton worked for seven years at Saint Marcus Lutheran School in Milwaukee, one of Wisconsin's only five-star ...
The letter can be found here and below:
Dr. Miguel Cardona
Secretary of Education
US Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
RE: Docket ID ED-2022-OESE-0006
To Secretary Cardona:
For 15 years, there was peace in Washington on the matter of charter schools. Democrats and Republicans, parents and ...
Madison, Wis. — The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) applauded visionary K-12 education reform bills introduced by Republicans in the Legislature Wednesday, led by Sens. Alberta Darling, Roger Roth, and Reps. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, Bob Wittke, and Rick Gundrum. The legislation focuses on fixing schools and providing families more choices ...
PROBLEM: Too many children in Wisconsin are being left behind by their public school, especially those in Milwaukee and Madison. Wisconsin’s racial achievement gaps are routinely found to be either the worst in the nation or very near it. Congressman Mike Gallagher recently noted in a comprehensive analysis of the crisis that ...