Reading scores have continued to decline in Wisconsin since 2022, leaving students more than a half of a grade below pandemic levels. At the same time, math scores in the state haven’t budged. That has left some students in districts including Sun Prairie, Oshkosh and West Allis-West Milwaukee lagging more than a full grade level behind 2019 math benchmarks.

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UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin reflected on her accomplishments leading the state’s flagship campus while acknowledging what she calls a period of “significant challenge” during her four-year tenure.

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A 25-member search committee has been named to find the next Universities of Wisconsin president after the Board of Regents fired system leader Jay Rothman last month.

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In 2024, parents in Menomonee Falls filed a complaint with the state alleging the school district’s removal of a children’s book depicting same-sex families was discriminatory. 

Now two years later, the Department of Public Instruction says it has “limited authority” to assess whether the School District of Menomonee Falls violated its local policies or the law.

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Watertown High School band students have spent months preparing for their May 18 spring concert. But a piece of music will likely be struck from their set list over its history.  

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Prices at the pump have everyone feeling uneasy, but the anxiety is 738 times worse in the Chequamegon School District. That’s how many square miles the district’s school buses cover every day.

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This week, All-In Milwaukee announced it received its largest philanthropic gift in the organization’s history. An $11 million donation from Keith Mardak and Mary Vandenberg will fund scholarships and programming for 500 new students over the next 10 years.

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Literacy coaches funded by the state will arrive next fall in Wisconsin schools where students are struggling to learn to read, fulfilling a key component of the 2023 Act 20 legislation that was stalled by political infighting. 

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The Trump administration wants the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to return more than $20 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds provided to private schools during the pandemic. 

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Students in the Madison Metropolitan School District won’t have school on Friday after more than half of the teachers said they would miss work that day to demonstrate in support of immigrants. 

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Long-time UW-Madison educator and leader Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau has been named the founding dean of the College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence.

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About 120 Milwaukee high school students who are taking dual enrollment courses at UW-Milwaukee and considering careers in teaching heard from Teach for America alumni on Friday during its annual conference. The event comes at a time when nearly one-third of people who complete their teacher training never enter the classroom in Wisconsin, according to a report released last month by the state Department of Public Instruction.

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On Wednesday students at Morse Middle School in Milwaukee played Earth Day-inspired bingo and helped clean up around their school's campus. Now a creative greenspace, the area was once four city blocks of concrete before staff applied for Morse to become one of the City of Milwaukee's Green Schools.

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Hundreds of parents, teachers and community members in the Delavan-Darien School District are asking board members to reconsider a plan to either reduce or eliminate its dual language program. 

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With its light yellow flowers and heart-shaped, dark green leaves, fig buttercup looks as pretty as its name. But scientists say this invasive plant is spreading quickly across Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota and will outcompete and kill native plants.

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Hundreds of animal rights activists raided a controversial Wisconsin dog breeding and testing facility in Dane county Saturday morning, one day ahead of the expected protest.

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Thunderstorms hammered an already waterlogged Wisconsin Friday night after a week-long stretch of storms that included several tornadoes across the state. 

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Legislative Republicans are asking the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed earlier this year by parents and educators from across Wisconsin alleging lawmakers have failed to adequately fund public schools.

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The Department of Public Instruction is being questioned by legislative Republicans about whether a $368,885 meeting in 2024 violated open meetings law.

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The Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa has named Dr. Shekar N. Kurpad as its next president and chief executive officer.

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