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- Wisconsin schools face funding squeeze as voters pick Legislature
- Poll: Wisconsin residents prioritize giving families more school options
- Wisconsin test scores show less than half of students reading at grade level
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Poll: Wisconsin residents prioritize giving families more school options
(The Center Square) - A majority of Wisconsinites would like to see an easier way for families to select a public school outside of their neighborhood school and support expanding...
Wisconsin test scores show less than half of students reading at grade level
(The Center Square) – Even with a new scoring schedule and improvement in some grades, less than half of students in Wisconsin schools are reading and doing math at grade level....
WILL offers roadmap to return Wisconsin back to charter school leader
(The Center Square) – There is a plan to return Wisconsin to the front of the pack when it comes to charter school innovation. The Wisconsin Institute on Law and Li...
If Wisconsin is in great financial shape, why can’t we afford to fund our schools?
It was a dreary, rainy Thursday morning when the state education department announced some depressing news: According to the final, official numbers, 62% of Wisconsin school distri...
New dashboard tracks Wisconsin school spending, performance
(The Center Square) – Parents across Wisconsin have a new tool to track how well their kids’ or community’s school is doing. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Lib...
Underly blames Legislature in State of Education speech
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s top education official, Jill Underly, gave her State of Education address Thursday, calling for a new way of funding education in the state but fa...
This new batch of school referendums might help change the WI legislature
Education advocates hope voters say yes to school referendums and no to the legislators who’ve been underfunding schools for 18 years. The post This new batch of school referendums...
Another broke back-to-school season begins with anxiety, hope for change
Gov. Tony Evers is taking his final back-to-school tour of the state, visiting K-12 classrooms across Wisconsin to meet students, families and staff and tout his record as the “Edu...
Wisconsin immigrants can keep using clinics, Head Start and adult education, judge rules
Wisconsin High School Students Stage Walkout In Support Of Nolan Wells
Students at Wauwatosa West High School in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, organized the walkout and marched from the school to the city’s Firefly Park.
Group sues over race-based Wisconsin teacher loan program
(The Center Square) – Another Wisconsin minority grant program is the subject of a lawsuit as the state’s $10,000-per-yer Minority Teacher Loan Program is the subject of the latest...
Wisconsin technical colleges ask for $168M in state's next 2-year budget
(The Center Square) - Wisconsin’s technical colleges are asking for $168 million in the state’s next two-year budget, including $59.4 million in general aid for the 2027-29 budget....
Judge rules Milwaukee County school library fund carve-out unconstitutional
(The Center Square) – For the second time in a month, a Wisconsin judge has ruled that Milwaukee County’s carve-out from contributing to the state’s Common School Fund is unconstit...
Wisconsin School District To Students: No Music For You!
Last May, the Watertown School Board decided to ban the high school's wind symphony from playing the song "A Mother of a Revolution," a musical piece written in honor of Marsha Joh...
Underly says it’s urgent to fix the school funding formula but timing will depend on the election
Wisconsin State Superintendent Jill Underly called for the state to overhaul the school funding formula in her sixth State of Education address Thursday, saying that the state “sim...
Guest opinion: Wisconsin has tried to improve reading for decades. Will this time be different?
Wisconsin’s college admissions law has unintended consequences
Amid federal probe, Black students remain disproportionately expelled at Milwaukee Public Schools
Is Tony Evers blocking scholarships for Wisconsin students by refusing to join a tax credit program?
University of Wisconsin Regents approve $730M budget request
The Center Square) – The University of Wisconsin system will be asking for $730 million from the state for its two-year operating budget after the school’s Board of Regents approve...
Wisconsin receives 'B,' ranks 23rd in annual Financial State of the States
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin ranks 23rd in the country and has a taxpayer surplus of $1,100 in the new Financial State of the States report from Truth in Accounting....
Wyffels Corn Belt Award – Wisconsin
During the months of September 2026, October 2026, January 2027, and February 2027,Wyffels and Brownfield will recognize high school students throughout the state of Wisconsin who...
2026 State of Education Address
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