Category: Newsmi perspectives

School Choice Expansion in Milwaukee, Racine, and Green Bay Stands to Lift the Tides of Education in Eastern Wisconsin

By Christian D’Andrea MacIver Institute Education Policy Analyst New school choice measures will bring Wisconsin students unprecedented access to quality schools in 2011. This includes students in Milwaukee, Racine, and...

Send in the Clowns, Don’t Bother, They’re Here

The good news from Madison this weekend is that the circus was in town. No, really. If you were driving past the Madison Expo on Saturday you may have noticed there was a little more traffic than usual. Perhaps you may have...

Slideshow: Wisconsin Gov. Union Protests

Since February 15, 2011 The MacIver News Service has been covering the events in Madison, Wisconsin. In reaction to Governor Scott Walker’s Budget Repair bill, which would change the compensation package for State Employees...

Union-Negotiated Work Rules for Public Employees Cost Taxpayers Dearly

After spending several days complaining about Governor Walker’s proposed compensation changes for state employees (as if a 100 percent match on pension contributions and picking up 87 percent of health insurance premiums were...

Nearly Half of Wisc’s African American Students Academically Unfit to Serve in Military

When it comes to the U.S. Military, almost half of Wisconsin’s African American students aren’t even fit to serve. That’s the story from the latest results of the United States Army’s Armed Services Vocational Aptitude...

Field Trip!!!!!

February 15, 2011 [Madison, Wisc...] Many of the hundreds of Madison East High School students didn’t know why their teachers brought them to the union protests at the Wisconsin Capitol Tuesday. But they knew they were just...