Stories tagged: "public education"
Between the shift to at-home learning and the struggle to hire enough teachers, the past three years have been challenging for schools. But 2022 proved Wisconsin's emerged better than most. Here are several "good news" standouts.
America’s state-based education systems got their first report card since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic this month, revealing Wisconsin students fared better than most of their peers in other states in both reading and math. The U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tested 4th and 8th graders earlier this year...
Wisconsin’s state superintendent gives low grades to the Republican candidate for governor, whose plan for struggling schools is to give them even less support while speaking out against “wokeness.”
Gov. Tony Evers has a $2 billion plan that would help schools without raising property taxes, if only the Legislature would come back to work.
As Wisconsin’s 2022-2023 school year begins, Democratic Governor Tony Evers has taken steps to address teacher shortages and expand mental health services in the state’s K-12 public schools. Districts from northeast Wisconsin, Madison, Milwaukee and beyond have reported struggling to fill staff positions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and a coarsening discourse surrounding...
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A suburban Wisconsin school district is under fire after its school board voted to affirm a policy banning Pride Flags from classrooms. The district, located about 45 minutes outside of Milwaukee, reinterpreted a district policy governing ‘political messages’ in the classrooms of district teachers over the summer. This month, the district school board voted in...
Long before the current nationwide shortage, universities had already reported a 35% drop in education majors from 2008-2018.