This week’s installment of “That’s Debatable” is a disagreement over the fallout from last week’s Milwaukee-area floods. Each week, the website WisOpinion.com asks two veterans of Wisconsin policy and politics, Scot Ross of One Wisconsin Now and our own Brian Fraley (a Director here at the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy) to engage in...
Milwaukee Alderman Bob Bauman has offered an instructive “strategy memo” for political candidates for governor concerning high-speed rail. Bauman’s memo is directed at the two Republican candidates, which should be news in itself. One should expect a press release from the Neumann and Walker campaigns for governor, “Milwaukee Democrat predicts Republican win in...
Last week, I did lunch with the sophisticated and civilized people. I knew the Midwest High Speed Rail Association’s ‘brown bag lunch’ at the Milwaukee Public Market last Thursday was going to be interesting when the first announcement was about how to get your automobile parking vouchers validated. It was the first incongruous clash between the theory behind rail and...
Wisconsin Educational Policy Analyst Asserts State’s Failure in Race to the Top Predictable, Avoidable
[Madison Wisc..] Wisconsin’s failure in the Educational Race to the Top is tied to policy makers’ reluctance to buck the will of the powerful Wisconsin teachers’ union.
Christian D’Andrea, an educational policy analyst with the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy in Madison, [...]
