by Libby Sobic | May 15, 2019 | Features
It’s National Charter Schools Week, a great time to assess the state-of-play for charter schools both in Wisconsin and around the country. With the tendency among politicians and the news media to reference charter schools as a scapegoat for issues in K-12 public...
by Libby Sobic | Apr 5, 2019 | Features
The end of a stalemate? Nearly four years after the state legislature enacted the Surplus Property Law, the Milwaukee Common Council finally approved the sale of a vacant school building, the former Hayes Bilingual School, to a public charter school. For the first...
by Libby Sobic | May 14, 2018 | Features, Special to RightWisconsin
By Libby Sobic and Will Flanders As the Milwaukee Public School District (MPS) grapples with a $30 million budget deficit, the school board continues to play around the edges while ignoring a glaring solution that is right in front of their face. There are currently...
by Libby Sobic | Jul 5, 2017 | Features
By Libby Sobic and Will Flanders State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers and the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) have a long history of discounting – or perhaps misunderstanding – studies showing the benefits of education reform. There was that...
