At Watchdog Milwaukee we are occasionally implored to write a story about an issue a reader feels strongly about. Usually these requests involve me making a few phone calls to verify the sources and a bit of investigative journalism. The story below was submitted last week but contains some information that we believe [...]

For years, school choice advocates have said it's a better approach to education while opponents have said it just siphons away scant funds from public schools.
Let's find out what the truth is.

How about a little accountability?  Let's find out.  Do choice schools stack up well against public schools?  Can they do better?  If they do, [...]

Sometimes, all you have to do is wait for the emperor to drive a school bus down the street butt naked. The emperor in this case is the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, which went crashing into a fire truck Wednesday morning, injuring 16 children.
Lawyers with the state Department of Transportation had never before heard [...]

They're all over the place in Milwaukee. Choice schools.
Are they a bad thing? Are they a good thing? I don't know, but it does seem that the incredibly high "cap" on choice schools has pretty much opened them up to whoever wants to go to one.
Choice schools have long earned criticism for [...]

It's got to be embarrassing for Marquette University Law School to have someone on staff who is so disconnected from reality.   The real question is, how did Rick Esenberg ever get on staff in the first place?

A few weeks ago, Esenberg penned a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel column equating my year 2000 vote for the pension plan [...]

An alternate universe does exist. And I now have proof that the Milwaukee has slipped into one such universe. It's a universe in which everything and nothing is true all at once, and there is no past. Many things in this place of mirrors appear opposite, especially in written form. In the public school reform circles, all [...]