(The Center Square) - A Wisconsin bill would ban student cell phone use throughout the school day, expanding on a previous law that requires all school districts to approve a plan to prohibit cell phones during instructional time by July…
(The Center Square) - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed bills Friday to define grooming as a crime and requiring school districts to define appropriate communication between staff and students.
(The Center Square) – School leaders in New Richmond, Wisconsin could soon be answering questions from federal investigators about their school bathrooms.
(The Center Square) – A Wisconsin name, image and likeness bill that would send $15 million annually for athletic facility debt to the University of Wisconsin system could soon reach the Senate floor after passing the Assembly.
(The Center Square) – A Wisconsin lawmaker charged with disorderly conduct is scheduled to have her initial court appearance Friday afternoon in Milwaukee County where several judges will be recused from the case.
(The Center Square) – The front-runner to manage Wisconsin’s Medicaid system has a history of missing deadlines, inflating costs and a “questionable track record.”
(The Center Square) – There are lots of words of support from Democrats at the Wisconsin Capitol for Gov. Tony Evers special session on redistricting, but the state’s Democratic leaders are measuring their words.
(The Center Square) - As the Wisconsin Senate prepares to act on a sports betting bill that passed the Assembly, the Sports Betting Alliance is continuing its push to have the legislation changed to include SBA’s members.
(The Center Square) – Public opinion on large-scale data centers in Wisconsin has shifted as 70% of voters say that the costs of the data centers outweigh the benefits.
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin taxpayers are growing in their concern over property taxes, as witnessed by a recent Marquette poll showing that 60% of voters are more concerned about reducing property taxes than increasing spending on public schools.
(The Center Square) - A group of Wisconsin Democrats and labor leaders are pushing a minimum wage bill that would increase the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 immediately, progressively increase that to $20 by 2030 and then have…
(The Center Square) – There is a new fear among education reformers in Wisconsin following the lawsuit to change how the state pays for public schools.
(The Center Square) - The Green Bay, Eau Claire, Beloit, Necedah and Adams-Friendship school districts along with parent-teacher groups, educator associations and individuals are suing the Wisconsin Legislature saying that it does not properly fund K-12 public education in the…
(The Center Square) - Wisconsin’s K-12 education leadership group said that its $368,000 standards-setting meeting in 2024 at a waterpark in the Wisconsin Dells was a "common approach" for state educational leaders across the country and in the two dozen…
(The Center Square) - Wisconsin is a leader in pushing for legislative authority over the authority of unelected bureaucrats, according to the Institute for Reforming Government’s Wisconsin Administrative Reform Toolbox.