Can I have some dressing to go with all of this salad?
Wisconsin received a $1,960,526 grant from the federal government to improve the quality of school meals and the administration of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
“Providing nutritious meals through the National School Lunch Program is one way to help students concentrate on their [...]

So who were the winners in the Department of Education’s Race to the Top? The Foundry at the Heritage Foundation says that nearly one-third of all state applicants made it to the next round, hardly an elite group. (Boy, does that make WIsconsin look even worse.) What’s interesting, as Andy Smarick of [...]

The Legislative Audit Bureau has completed their study of Wisconsin’s public charter online schools, and the results are in: these schools are successful. As I wrote for the MacIver Institute this week, it’s time to celebrate their success by lifting the caps:
Students enrolled in virtual schools exceeded their brick and mortar counterparts in [...]

There’s an idea floating around that all we need to do to help property tax payers and fund education at the same time is to increase the sales tax. Everybody wants to increase the sales tax for their pet causes, but Tom Beebe and the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools (WAES) want to increase [...]

In this week’s article for the MacIver Institute, I took a look at Governor Jim Doyle’s plans for the “Race to the Top” money from the federal government.
Doyle plans on using $250 million in federal “Race to the Top” federal money to boost school funding in some districts. But when the “Race to the Top” [...]

The auction benefiting the Waukesha Catholic School System is looking for items.
Auction Items Needed!
The acquisitions committee has had quite a bit of success in getting donations for your bidding pleasure. But, to ensure another successful event they could use a few more items.
Do you or does someone you know own a business [...]

Jo Egelhof asks an important question about the Appleton school district:
But here’s the question. If the federal government is having to borrow everything it spends, spending your children’s money and your grandchildren’s money; if the state is in deep budget trouble, still struggling with billions in deficits and revenues that continue to fall short; if [...]

I have a small “dispatch” regarding the virtual schools enrollment cap online at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute’s website. The article is about two families who are hoping their children can attend Waukesha’s IQ Academy this fall but are currently on the waiting list. An excerpt:
For parents like Deana Sheppard and Kathleen Seipel, [...]

Milwaukee State Representative Fred Kessler’s attack on school choice has not gone unnoticed. Ricky on State of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel opines:
Milwaukee State Representative Fred Kessler’s Kessler would take it back to 19,500, down from the 22,500 negotiated three years ago by choice advocates and the governor. The problem: Choice schools have acted as [...]

State Representative Fred Kessler (D-Milwaukee) is no friend of the Milwaukee school choice program and proved it again with a purely gratuitous move to reduce the enrollment cap for school choice students from 22,500 to 19,500. Readers will remember the fight to set the cap at 22,500, and how much heat Governor Doyle took. [...]