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• Proposal gets serious about raising the bar for student achievement - January 29, 2012

  What if you suddenly found out that half of the eighth-graders in Wisconsin, all kids you thought were highly rated readers, really didn't merit .....

• Senate Committee Passes Coverdell Expansion

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• US Supreme Court: ministerial exemption case
• School restraint bill back on table - December 27, 2011

  A proposed bill that would prohibit teachers and staff from secluding or physically restraining students in public schools except in specific circumstances...

• Choice program attributed to increase in Catholic school enrollment - December 9, 2011

  Pierre "Nic" Antoine, principal of two Catholic schools in Racine formed by school mergers, understands the pain families feel when their schools are closed......

• MPS scores near bottom in national test - December 7, 2011

  Milwaukee Public Schools students continued to post some of the lowest reading and math scores....

• Senate passes bill requiring sex ed to promote marriage, abstinence - November 2, 2011

  Madison - Schools that teach sexual education would have to promote marriage and tell students abstinence....

• Budget panel backs expanding charter school program statewide - October 26, 2011

  An independent charter school program would expand to medium and large school districts around Wisconsin, under a bill passed Wednesday....

• Green Bay School District officials back bill blocking vouchers - October 4, 2011

  Green Bay school officials support legislation that would prevent the state's school voucher....

• Wisconsin may gain waiver from federal education mandates - September 24, 2011

  Wisconsin may be released from meeting key requirements of a federal education law......

• MPS 'voucher tax' statement OK'd - September 22, 2011

  A proposal to make more transparent the tax that citizens pay for private-school vouchers...

• Some students may be turned away from Racine voucher program - August 31, 2011

  The new private school voucher program in Racine has received more student applications than the 250-student first-year cap on enrollment will allow, meaning some ......

• Walker wants school task force to develop program for successful schools - August 30, 2011

  Gov. Scott Walker urged a new school accountability,,,
  
   

• West Bend School District divided by politics - August 21, 2011

  Schools are outperforming the state average...

• Charter management group just might help Milwaukee schools - August 20, 2011

  First, a lesson from baseball: It was roughly a year ago that Brewers fans were wringing their hands that the pitching was bad...

• Wisconsin scores high on test, but racial disparities continue - August 17. 2011

  With the highest percent of students taking the ACT in state history, Wisconsin's Class of 2011 posted an average score slightly....

• Building character is a worthy subject in schools - August 13, 2011

  Would you rather have someone graduate high school with good computer skills or good character traits?

• States to get waivers on No Child tests - August 8, 2011

  The Obama administration effectively gutted the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law....

• Charter school growth faces uncertain future - August 6, 2011

  At the start of this year, John Gee, executive director of the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association, was predicting,,,,

• Charter school could close over enrollment dispute with MPS - July 24, 2011

  A Milwaukee charter school that caters to children with special needs ranging from autism to homelessness,,,,

• The upside and downside of Walker's education vision - July 23, 2011

  A heat dome has settled over much of American education. Is Gov. Scott Walker just going to add to the stifling atmosphere?

• 22 schools show interest in voucher plan - July 18, 2011
• Messmer helps students cope with calamity - July 12, 2011

  When Ayanna Murrell and Akella Kency's apartment burned down May 10, they lost everything but wanted for nothing,,,,

• Senate OK'd budget goes to Walker - June 16, 2011

  The Legislature on Thursday handed Gov. Scott Walker his budget remolding government at every level, even as new details emerged on how it could lead to the expansion of the state's school voucher....

• School choice could expand across state under budget provision - June 16, 2011

  The state's school voucher programs could be expanded to various school districts around the state.....

• Green Bay school voucher talk isn't over advocates say - June 16, 2011

  School-choice advocates say the push to bring a school voucher program to Green Bay won't end even if the concept is removed from the state's proposed budget.

• Teachers' bank account data sought - June 15, 2011

  Union leaders are scrambling to ask teachers for their bank account information.....

• Choice school leader denounces ACLU lawsuit - June 8, 2011

  Operators of the Concordia University School lashed back Tuesday against ....

• School choice program shuts out disabled, federal complaint says - June 7, 2011

  The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program discriminates against children with disabilities and segregates them in public schools, parents .....

• Parochial schools try to keep music, art at all costs - May 15, 2011

  While arts education is likely to take a hit in urban public schools due in part to Gov. Scott Walker's biennial budget, many private schools ......

• Green Bay area Catholic schools' use of Wisconsin voucher program backed by diocese - May 16, 2011

  A coalition of local parochial school leaders joined today to support a plan to bring a school choice voucher program to  Green Bay.

• Republicans voice concern over voucher expansion - May 12, 2011

  The GOP president of the state Senate said Wednesday he was concerned about Gov. Scott Walker's push to expand a Milwaukee-style school voucher program....

• Voucher plan for other cities creates fears, cheers - May 11, 2011

  Gov. Scott Walker didn't offer details about how private school voucher programs could work in Green Bay, Racine and Beloit, but on Tuesday .....

• Walker: Budget could expand school choice to other cities - May 10, 2011

  Gov. Scott Walker wants to bring voucher schools to urban areas beyond Milwaukee and predicts lawmakers will approve that expansion by the end of June 

• Expanded school voucher bill passes legislative committee - May 5, 2011

  An unlimited number of students could participate in Milwaukee's school voucher program under a bill the Legislature's budget committee signed off on Thursday. 

• Comments sought on school voucher program bills - 4/19/11

  The state Assembly Committee on Education will hear public testimony Tuesday on two bills relating to Milwaukee's voucher program, and another . . .

• Voucher testing data takes a new twist - 3/30/11

  A day after the release of state test scores showed voucher-school students in Milwaukee achieving lower levels of reading and math proficiency than . . .

• Data-driven student intervention program to go statewide in Wisconsin -3/28/11

  West Bend - Shortly after a bell signals the start of school, the hallways at West Bend's Green Tree Elementary School are still filled with children . . .

• Milwaukee could become first American city to use universal vouchers for education - 3/26/11

  Milwaukee's private school voucher program has broken new and controversial ground often in its 21- year history. Now, it is headed toward . .

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