Gov. Scott Walker announced Wednesday specific details of a plan that offers more financial support to Wisconsin’s rural public schools as part of his biennial budget proposal.
Amid a national discussion of voucher programs and change in education secretary, the Madison School Board voted Monday to allow the Isthmus Montessori Academy to transition from a private to public charter institution starting in the fall of 2018, following a few required changes.
President Donald Trump was quick to dismiss former President Barack Obama-appointed Attorney General Sally Yates Monday after she refused to defend his recent executive order temporarily banning all refugees and indefinitely banning Syrian refugees in court.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside a federal courthouse in Milwaukee Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on travel and immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries. Many of the more than 100 protesters are Iranian-born faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin system, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Trump’s executive order, which intends to “suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants,” persons from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen, spurred major protests at airports around the country. “The ban is counter to longstanding U.S.
Alongside the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Schimel’s office rolled out the “By Your Side” campaign, an initiative designed to help sexual assault survivors track the progress of their cases.
While some Republicans continue to remain silent on the issue, all four of Wisconsin’s Democratic members of Congress say they disagree with President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban.
Wisconsin’s Department of Transportation underestimated the cost of completed and ongoing highway projects due to failure from officials to account for inflation and other unexpected cost increases, according to an audit report released Thursday.
Peña Nieto, the president of Mexico, canceled his trip to Washington, D.C., Thursday following President Donald Trump’s executive action to build a wall on the Mexican border and insisting Mexico pay for it.
A recent freeze on contracts and grants awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency could potentially affect millions of research dollars at UW-Madison. The Trump administration instituted the freeze Tuesday, though the EPA has not issued any formal notices to the university about the status of existing or pending grants.
Construction will advance on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines following President Donald Trump signing an executive order Tuesday, in a move that directly opposes an environmental action taken by former President Barack Obama. Energy Transfer Partners, the owner of the 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline, were denied a permit by the Obama administration late last year after months of protests at Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which would be affected by the oil line.
Gov. Scott Walker will reveal his heavily anticipated biennial budget Wednesday, Feb. 8, he announced in a formal letter to his colleagues.
After the first weekend of Donald Trump’s presidency, UW-Madison College Democrats and Republicans both said they have reasons to feel optimistic.
Gov. Scott Walker announced a welfare reform initiative Monday that aims to increase investment in skills training for the unemployed while also requiring “able-bodied” people receiving government assistance to work at least 80 hours per month. The plan, titled “Wisconsin Works for Everyone,” is part of Walker’s upcoming budget proposal, and builds on welfare reform initiatives originally signed into law by former Gov.
There will be a severe shortage of family planning services for Medicaid participants in Wisconsin if Planned Parenthood health centers are cut off from the state’s Medicaid program, a recent report shows. The study found that “without Planned Parenthood health center’s participation in the state’s Medicaid program, low income women, particularly low income women of color, will face significant barriers to accessing family planning services and other reproductive health care.” One of those barriers is the lack, or absence of, an alternative family planning service.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., said financial aid is a bigger issue than the cost of tuition and encouraged Wisconsin residents to participate in grassroots movements during an intimate news conference Thursday. The congressman was hesitant to support Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed in-state tuition cut for all UW System undergraduates, stating that if Walker doesn’t cover the costs of lost revenue the system will no longer be a renowned institution.
Wisconsin legislators and public school supporters remain wary following controversial Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos’s confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of billionaire DeVos to the position has been hotly contested both in Washington and throughout the nation. Criticism stems from DeVos’s lack of experience in public education and that neither she nor her children have attended a public school. DeVos’s advocacy for school choice in the form of taxpayer-funded voucher schools and charter schools has also raised concern.
As the conversation of college affordability takes a national spotlight, U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-La Crosse, introduced bipartisan amendments to a national law Tuesday that are designed to help Wisconsin families weather the cost of higher education.
Most school spending consists of employee salaries and benefits, and Wisconsin school districts have reduced both, according to the report.
Gov. Scott Walker plans to cut in-state undergraduate tuition, which many view as a move that could help ease the burden of college costs and propel Wisconsin students to a dream of receiving a higher education. The state hasn’t seen a tuition reduction since 1982. Although Walker didn’t elaborate on the details of the proposed tuition reduction when he announced it during his State of the State address last week, he did explain that the cut would extend to all of the 26 UW System schools. The tuition cut does not apply to out-of-state students or graduate students.
Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday in his seventh State of the State address that he will seek to cut in-state tuition at all UW System schools.
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