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New MPS Superintendent Launches Charm Offensive

MacIver News Service | July 29, 2010 [Milwaukee, Wisc...] With a proclamation that student performance was the only rubric that mattered, an optimistic Dr. Gregory Thornton addressed questions Wednesday night regarding his new...

Criticism Over Dem Health ‘Vision’ Mounts

MacIver News Service | July 22, 2010 [Madison, Wisc...] Controversy is brewing over an expansive health care agenda unveiled in Madison this week by the Doyle administration. “This plan will not only reach deeper into the...

Wisconsin’s 10-Year Health Plan Includes Government Expansion, New Taxes

MacIver News Service | July 21, 2010 [Madison, Wisc...] State health officials Wednesday released a long-range health vision that proposes increased taxes on alcohol, placing community health centers in middle schools,...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Affirms Property Rights, Rebukes Governor Doyle

MacIver News Service | July 20, 2010 [Madison, Wisc...] In a 5-2 opinion released today, the State Supreme Court has affirmed the property rights of doctors and other health care providers. The Court, in a majority opinion by...

3 in 4 Milwaukee Students Opt Out of Neighborhood Public School

[Madison, Wisc…] A new report by the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy shows that more than seventy five percent of Milwaukee’s K-12 students actually exercise some form of educational choice every...

Fraud, Abuse of Wisconsin Shares Program Continues

MacIver News Service | July 15, 2010 [Madison, Wisc...] Wisconsin Shares continues to be subjected to waste, fraud and abuse according to the latest report from the Department of Children and Families, which runs the program...

DNR Publishes Controversial Climate Change Textbook

MacIver News Service | July 14, 2010 [Madison, Wisc...] Critics claim the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is trying to indoctrinate students into becoming environmental activists by distributing thousands of copies of a...

Key Deadline Friday in Wisconsin’s Race to Implement Obamacare

By Bill Osmulski MacIver News Service [Madison, Wisc..] The Doyle Administration is moving quickly to have Wisconsin be one of the first states to implement a health insurance exchange, which the recently passed national health...

Milwaukee Choice Schools’ Teachers Adapting

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MacIver Educational Choice Census Shows Widespread Appetite for Schooling Options in Wisconsin

[Madison, Wisc…] A new report by the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy shows that more than 200,000 Wisconsin K-12 students exercise some form of educational choice every year. “When Wisconsinites talk of school...

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