by Cori Petersen | Jan 15, 2021 | Features
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education made funding available to state governors to distribute for education purposes. The money is called GEER funds, which stands for Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund. This is similar to the funds governors...
by Cori Petersen | May 18, 2020 | Features
Just $47: that’s the amount of money that is preventing Katrina Olguin from being able to enroll her kids in the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (WPCP). “We were just $47 over and I did everything to adjust it legally. And then they were just like, no, sorry,” she...
by Cori Petersen | Apr 30, 2020 | Features
On April 28, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed an amicus brief to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Legislature v. Palm, the original action challenging the extension of the ‘Safer at Home’ order. WILL’s amicus was on behalf of a group of small business...
by Cori Petersen | Apr 8, 2020 | Features
290,000 Apply for Unemployment As of April 5, 290,000 Wisconsinites have applied for unemployment benefits since Gov. Evers declared Wisconsin to be in a public health emergency March 12. About 69,300 applied the week of March 14 about another 115,700 applied the week...
by Cori Petersen | Jan 31, 2020 | Features
For many years now the story has been that Catholic education is on the decline. From the mid-1960s to 2012, the number of Catholic schools fell from 13,000 to 7,000. In the 1960s Catholic schools educated about 13% of the school-age population, but by 2012...
