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 mixing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 actually win a [...]

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 come up [...]