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Category: Education

Workers at a school
Posted inEducation, Health & Welfare

Advocates want more transparency in Milwaukee Public Schools lead action plan

Avatar photo by Alex Klaus / Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service September 6th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Milwaukee Public Schools’ lead remediation efforts are being questioned by advocates who want more clarity on the district’s plans.

Classroom with desks and dummies in beds
Posted inCommunity, Education

Dual enrollment helps Milwaukee Public Schools students prepare for college success. Why are participation rates low?

Avatar photo by Alex Klaus / Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service August 29th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
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Posted inEducation, Pathways to success

This college’s strategy for preventing dropouts? Classes half as long

Avatar photo by Miranda Dunlap / Wisconsin Watch August 12th, 2025August 18th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
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Posted inEducation, Government, Health & Welfare, Pathways to success

Trump is trying to exclude immigrants from many federally funded programs. Here’s what it means for Wisconsin.

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Natalie Yahr / Wisconsin Watch and Sreejita Patra / Wisconsin Watch August 7th, 2025August 11th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
Book on table
Posted inEducation, Pathways to success

Trump’s Education Department says it will unfreeze billions in grant money for schools

Avatar photo by Collin Binkley / Associated Press, Annie Ma / Associated Press and Miranda Dunlap / Wisconsin Watch July 25th, 2025August 8th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
Man at desk talks to others
Posted inEducation, Pathways to success

Trump funding freeze threatens programs that prepare thousands for jobs in Wisconsin

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Natalie Yahr / Wisconsin Watch and Miranda Dunlap / Wisconsin Watch July 16th, 2025July 25th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
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Posted inEducation

A program helps teachers tell Milwaukee’s untold stories. The Trump administration says it will no longer fund it.

by Devin Blake / Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service July 12th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
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Posted inEducation, Pathways to success

Antigo school’s first-in-the-nation training sawmill readies students for lumber industry

Avatar photo by Rob Mentzer / Wisconsin Public Radio May 30th, 2025May 30th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
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Posted inEducation, Pathways to success

How this rural Wisconsin community college raised grads’ wages — and saved its accreditation

Avatar photo by Natalie Yahr / Wisconsin Watch May 28th, 2025June 24th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
Illustration with images of girl in glasses says "SAVE MEDICAID" and "Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Commu…"
Posted inEducation, Health & Welfare

‘She’ll fall through the cracks’: Parents of kids with disabilities brace for new reality

by Barbara Rodriguez / The 19th and Nadra Nittle / The 19th May 16th, 2025May 16th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
A statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln sits in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus under a blue sky.
Posted inEducation, Government

International students stripped of legal status in the US are piling up wins in court

by Kate Brumback / Associated Press April 24th, 2025April 24th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
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Posted inEducation, Government

She’s on a scholarship at a tribal college in Wisconsin. The Trump administration suspended the USDA grant that funded it.

by Matt Krupnick for ProPublica March 20th, 2025March 20th, 2025 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

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