Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Fighting an uphill battle

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It always feels a bit discomforting to say, "Race and economic status are highly correlated to academic achievement." Children can...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Most new voucher users already were enrolled in private schools

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The Forum's 14th annual census of schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) finds that voucher use by Milwa...
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 ...