Last year we highlighted how Bruce Thomas, a CRG activist, ran to win a seat on the Brown Deer school board. His platform consisted primarily of railing against spending in schools. Fortunately voters turned him away.
Now he’s back on the ballot but there’s a greater possibility that this convicted criminal might [...]

This week, as Gov. Jim Doyle, Legislative Democrats and Assembly GOP Leader John Gard expressed a willingness to reach a compromise on School Choice, Assembly Rep. Leah Vukmir (R - Wauwatosa) — the sponsor of the “lift the cap” proposal — was no where to be found in Madison. Instead of working to [...]

Do Republicans in the state Legislature really want to know what’s in the curriculum at Milwaukee’s Malcolm X Academy? Is the evangelical wing of the party ready to link arms with Louis Farrakhan?
Of course they don’t, and neither do Alberta Darling’s neighbors in River Hills on the North Shore or Leah Vukmir’s in [...]

Some ten years ago an education hustler out of Atlanta by way of Houston, stood in my office , pitching a story to me about the new school he was planning to open, the Milwaukee Preparatory Academy. Students would wear dress clothes. The girls would wear skirts; the boys would wear ties. It [...]