Sunday, January 29, 2012

YoungStar's impacts on the Milwaukee child care market

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In June 2010, in the wake of detailed media accounts of widespread fraud in the Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy system and growing evide...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Where's the plan to address central city unemployment?

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As reported earlier this week in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , the UWM Center for Economic Development's latest report on race and ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Measuring the impact of a great teacher

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"Value-added" assessment is an increasingly popular method of evaluating the influence of schools and teachers on student achievem...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

When is a plan not a plan?

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According to a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel PolitiFact article, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele's decision to use $36.6 mil...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Paradigm shifts in state budgeting

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In 2003, California could have laid off every one of its state employees and still had a deficit, according to Alan Greenblatt of Governing ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Metro Milwaukee nonprofit organizations rate the region's philanthropic efforts

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In each of the past 15 years, the Public Policy Forum has surveyed nonprofit leaders in southeast Wisconsin to gain insight into the financi...
Friday, December 16, 2011

In rating child care provider quality, Wisconsin can learn from other states

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In June 2010, Wisconsin’s Joint Committee on Finance approved YoungStar, a new quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for the state’s ...