Education spending is pretty opaque, but it looks like Milwaukee Public Schools have seen a massive (~50%) increase in spending per pupil over the past 30 years, but limited advances in achievement. Graduation rate increases over the period look to be from lowering requirements and it's hard to find a silver lining in academic achievement. What's the takeaway for how to reform/fix a troubled school district with enrollment declines? Not to even get into the administrative incompetence on display recently.
In light of Kamala Harris’s loss, Susan Crawford’s win, and the ever-present status of battleground state here in Wisconsin, what would you see as impressive, needed, and ambitious policy wins for the political left in Wisconsin? What state leaders are offering up a strong vision that inspires the left, pulls in the working class, and poses a formidable alternative to MAGA extremism in our state?
Education spending is pretty opaque, but it looks like Milwaukee Public Schools have seen a massive (~50%) increase in spending per pupil over the past 30 years, but limited advances in achievement. Graduation rate increases over the period look to be from lowering requirements and it's hard to find a silver lining in academic achievement. What's the takeaway for how to reform/fix a troubled school district with enrollment declines? Not to even get into the administrative incompetence on display recently.
In light of Kamala Harris’s loss, Susan Crawford’s win, and the ever-present status of battleground state here in Wisconsin, what would you see as impressive, needed, and ambitious policy wins for the political left in Wisconsin? What state leaders are offering up a strong vision that inspires the left, pulls in the working class, and poses a formidable alternative to MAGA extremism in our state?