by George Mitchell | Nov 7, 2019 | Features
State Agency Hid Favorable News About School Choice Programs The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has knowingly violated state law in order to obscure the performance of students participating in Wisconsin’s school choice programs. Specifically, DPI...
by George Mitchell | Sep 15, 2019 | Features
The state released test score data last week for students in public schools and private voucher schools. Here are a few facts readers of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel are unfamiliar with: Depending on the type of test, there are 30 different ways to compare public...
by George Mitchell | Aug 12, 2019 | Features
Republicans and Democrats have something on which they can agree: Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes will be an anchor on Gov. Tony Evers if Barnes seeks re-election. While GOP leaders must hope Barnes hangs in there, Evers and his braintrust almost certainly are grappling with...
by George Mitchell | Jul 26, 2019 | Features
Grim News While Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editor George Stanley likely does not read every story that appears, he surely reviewed Thursday’s piece by Tom Daykin on the relocation of the paper away from its Fourth & State headquarters. That story included...
by George Mitchell | Jul 21, 2019 | Features
Myths About Incarceration Causes Preventing Real Discussion of Prison Population Reduction Problems During the three decades I have followed Wisconsin prison policy, public discussion has been hobbled by half-truths about who is in prison and how they got...
