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Tag: Education

Tony Evers: One is the loneliest number

On Thursday, Oct 12, 2017
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Last week, every single one of my fellow Regents attending our most recent meeting voted to approve a dangerous anti-free speech proposal that will, without question, chill speech at college campuses across Wisconsin.

DPI sends statewide education plan to the feds over some GOP protest

On Monday, Sep 18, 2017
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Dem guv candidate and state schools Superintendent Tony Evers chalked up Gov. Scott Walker’s refusal to sign onto his department’s statewide education plan as playing politics. Education officials submitted their accountability framework to the feds today. The state’s plan to…

Emails show early concerns, last-minute changes to UW-Madison Thompson Center

On Friday, Jun 30, 2017
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The professor who envisioned the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership threatened at the last minute to drop out of the project over concerns the board overseeing it would have too much power, according to emails obtained by WisPolitics.com.…

State could rake in $15 million from fees tacked onto debt collections over next two years

On Friday, Jun 23, 2017
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The state’s take from fees tacked onto what people owe state agencies, courts and the UW System could hit $15 million over the next two years, under a plan in the guv’s budget to expand debt collection. Debt collectors in…

Sources: Potential K-12 deal would boost aid, reduce property taxes

On Friday, Jun 23, 2017
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GOP Joint Finance Committee members have discussed a K-12 package that would keep Gov. Scott Walker’s per pupil boost while meeting the guv’s insistence that property tax bills in 2018 be lower than they were in 2014, sources tell WisPolitics.com.…

Districts that lose students to open enrollment concerned about aid boost

On Friday, Jun 16, 2017
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Suburban school districts are applauding an open enrollment aid boost in the Assembly GOP education plan, saying it would direct dollars to those actually teaching the transferring students. But rural districts and others that lose large numbers of students to…

Bills curbing school districts’ ability to go to referendum criticized by school advocates

On Thursday, Jun 15, 2017
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A series of bills that would put the brakes on the referendum process for school districts drew criticism from Dems and some school advocates today, who argued the legislation would hurt schools and students. The three bills, part of a…

Supporters say bill that would change state’s choice programs would help reduce burdens on schools

On Tuesday, Jun 13, 2017
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Private school advocates lined up today to voice support for a bill that would make sweeping technical changes to the state’s school choice programs. The bipartisan bill, which is likely to be on the guv’s desk before the end of…

Mursau, Shankland hope lawmakers will save Wisconsin Environmental Education Board

On Friday, Jun 9, 2017
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In just three weeks, a state board that’s spent 27 years managing grants for environmental education will go away. That’s why two lawmakers of different parties, both members of the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board, are making a last-ditch effort to…

School advocates raise concerns over Assembly GOP’s whole grade sharing plan

On Thursday, Jun 8, 2017
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An incentive program in the Assembly GOP K-12 plan for one district to send its students to another for instruction is looking to put more resources in the classroom, according to one backer. Still, school advocates are concerned the program,…

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