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Opinion | How Parents Beat the Left on School Choice in Wisconsin Original
Despite having a new liberal majority, the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused this month to hear a challenge to the state’s school-choice programs. The lawsuit, supported by the Minocqua Brewing Co.’s progressive super PAC, would have deprived more than 60,000 students of funding. The episode carries a lesson for advocates of education freedom. The lawsuit challenged Wisconsin’s taxpayer-funded voucher programs. While teachers unions hailed it, Democratic politicians refused to endorse it. Gov.
School Choice Could Help a Rural Community—if Given the Chance | RealClearEducation
MATTOON, Wis.—At 7 a.m. every morning, Angela Copas’s five-year-old son takes a 45-minute school-bus ride to his public school in Antigo, in rural northern Wisconsin. The long commute is actually an upgrade from last year when he had to leave at 6 a.m. for his one-hour-and-45-minute bus ride. This wasn’t always the case. Prior to 2016 students in the Village of Mattoon would attend the nearby Mattoon Elementary School.
School Choice Could Help This Rural Community
C.J. Szafir & Cori Petersen, RealClearEducation July 3, 2019 Prior to 2016 students in the Village of Mattoon would attend the nearby Mattoon Elementary School. But in 2016 Mattoon closed and was absorbed into the larger Unified School District of Antigo. Prior to Mattoon, three other area schools were closed and funneled into Antigo, and this year three more are slated to close. It devastated Mattoon, a town of about 420 people approximately 90 miles north west of Green Bay.
Opinion | Scott Walker’s Gift to His Democratic Successor
Labor unions rally to protest Act 10 in the rotunda of the Wisconsin state Capitol, Aug. 25, 2011. Photo: John Hart/Associated Press In Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mystery “The Adventure of Silver Blaze,” the dog that didn’t bark reveals the greater truth. The same might be said of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’s first state budget proposal.
Opinion | This Building Is for Sale (but Not to a Charter School)
Declining enrollment has contributed to a growing inventory of vacant and half-empty school buildings in cities across the U.S. Private and charter schools often want to purchase or lease space in these facilities. But school districts and union-backed politicians frequently balk.
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