Q & A with Steve Edlund
Candidate for school board Steve Edlund is a siamese twin to controversy. After years of activism in the city and countless open records requests, Edlund is running for office himself. If he wins,...
View ArticleDoyle cheats on his homework
Oh, you mean those charter schools. The MacIver Institute reports today the state of Wisconsin may have submitted a false application for the Race to the Top funding. Page 240 of Wisconsin’s...
View ArticleLift the cap
This is the beginning of school choice week. One of the choices in Wisconsin is public charter online education, or virtual schools. Unfortunately, despite the documented success of the virtual...
View ArticleGood news about the virtual charter schools enrollment cap
State Representative André Jacque is a co-sponsor of a bill that would lift the enrollment cap for the state’s virtual charter schools. He had hoped that the legislature would vote on the bill in July,...
View ArticleAnother look at the benefits of virtual schools
I received a nice phone call today thanking me for my latest article for the MacIver Institute on virtual schools and their benefits. There are many advantages to an online school versus a traditional...
View ArticleMeanwhile, at the online playground
My son is attending a virtual school this year. He told me today how he and his fellow students in his reading class hung around online after class getting to know each other. He told me how the other...
View ArticleEducating Will
My latest piece over at the MacIver Institute is our personal experience with finding the right fit for my son’s education. My son Will is having the best year in school he has ever had, because he is...
View ArticleI’m a proud virtual school parent
It’s nice to see my latest column for RightWisconsin getting some positive attention since it’s so personal to me. In the column I explain a little bit about virtual schools, why it is not...
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How I became a school choice (virtual school) parent
As I sit here tapping out this blog post, my son is about six feet away working on his biology homework after just watching his biology lecture. Over at RightWisconsin, I explain why my son became a...
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New online charter school helps students into workforce faster
In my first piece for Watchdog.org I tell the story of Destinations Career Academy, the first online charter school in Wisconsin that is focused on career and technical education. Nicholaus Sutherland,...
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