Wisconsin Public Education Network

Every child deserves an equally excellent public education. We connect all who support thriving public schools to information, actions, and each other.

[Wisconsin Public Education Network @WiscEdNetwork]

Video Celebrating Public Education in Wisconsin Nominated for Midwest Emmy! Congratulations to Story Time with Steve & Micah!
https://t.co/yU9nPJxBiK

[Wisconsin Public Education Network @WiscEdNetwork]

Registration is now live for Summer Summit 2025, our unique annual event which brings together public school champions from hundreds of roles and communities.
REGISTER & LEARN MORE HERE: https://t.co/ofgy2tgzl8

[Wisconsin Public Education Network @WiscEdNetwork]

"[WI] has the financial capacity to adequately support students with disabilities, to invest in all students, and, crucially, to protect property taxpayers from these ever-increasing burdens... Let’s demand that our elected officials finally act"
https://t.co/zbwzkUT8O7

[Wisconsin Public Education Network @WiscEdNetwork]

Urgent Action Alert! Email Congress TODAY Before 2pm!

Take action today before 2pm and ask them to remove Qualified Elementary and Secondary Education Scholarships (formerly ECCA): https://t.co/1mXpOPVGaz

[Wisconsin Public Education Network @WiscEdNetwork]

TODAY is the last day to submit public comment to the Joint Committee on Finance on the 2025-27 Wisconsin State Budget. The form will close tonight at 5pm -- don't miss your chance to be a voice for Wisconsin students! https://t.co/XD1XlR3dnW

[Wisconsin Public Education Network @WiscEdNetwork]

Hey Wisconsin!

It's time to protect and support America's students and their public schools!

CALL YOUR REPS
and demand they
protect students,
prevent all funding cuts,
and save the Education Department.

CALL here! http:https://t.co/4pBfuVBrFm

[Governor Tony Evers @GovEvers]

I’ve spent my life fighting for Wisconsin’s kids. I’ve been a teacher, a principal, a superintendent, and the state superintendent.

I know Wisconsin's kids and our schools—this decision would be catastrophic for them. There's no question. I’m sorry, but this is bullshit.

[MTEA @MTEAunion]

Sign a petition today asking Governor Evers to put forward a budget that closes the public education funding gap: https://t.co/AKiPuZs4c5

[MTEA @MTEAunion]

.@WiscEdNetwork calling attention to the two thirds of public school districts across Wisconsin forced to go to voters for a funding referendum since spring of 2023 because politicians in Madison refuse to do their job and fund public education....

[Jennifer Berkshire @BisforBerkshire]

I talk to as many Trump supporters as I can these days. Which is how I know that his education agenda is raising all kinds of red flags. From vouchers to controversial picks to lead the Dept of Ed, Trump is charting an unpopular course, & losing some of his base as a result

[Journal Sentinel @journalsentinel]

Under new DPI proposal, breakfast and lunch would be free for all Wisconsin K-12 students https://t.co/9N6eKbh15g

[Jon Shelton @prof_shelton]

On October 1, we welcome @BisforBerkshire, co-host of @HaveYouHeardPod and co-author of a fabulous new book, to @uwgb for the first in this year’s @harveyjkaye State of Democracy speaker series. We hope you can join us! @uwgreenbaynews @WiscEdNetwork

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

Periodic and sadly still needed warning:

Far from a “lifeline” for at-risk families, school vouchers have caused some of the worst academic losses on record in underserved communities.

Vouchers are education's version of predatory lending.

#Project2025 👇

[Support Our Schools Nebraska @SOSNebraska]

𝗗é𝗷à 𝘃𝘂: 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗕𝟭𝟰𝟬𝟮 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘁

Read the full release:
https://t.co/J2LQe0OD4Q.

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

The first modern school voucher program began in Milwaukee in 1990.

34 years later as the city hosts #RNC2024 and vouchers headline the #Project2025 education agenda:

Let’s check in on the Milwaukee results thus far👇

*The last year to show positive results for voucher users was 1993, during the program’s pilot phase.

*After program expansion, nearly 8/10 voucher users were already in private school—a preview of similar data in other states today.

*More recently: voucher users exit at rates of 20-25% a year, are more likely students of color and lower scoring—but do better once enrolling in city public schools.

*When WI began requiring voucher schools to follow the same oversight rules as public schools, voucher results improved 🤔

*Some suggestive data indicate public “competitive” effects—but the city system as a whole has never gained ground since a “rising tide for all boats” was promised.

*Other “studies” of Milwaukee voucher data on non-academic outcomes are poorly designed and done by DeVos and/or Bradley-backed think tanks.

*The US investigated several flagship schools in the Milwaukee voucher system for discriminating against students with special needs. The inquiry closed with a non-finding.

*Today’s descendent of the first Milwaukee voucher system is rife with discrimination toward students with disabilities and 🏳️‍🌈 families👇
https://t.co/UNiQP11QHn

[Wisconsin Public Education Network @WiscEdNetwork]

Tune in to @bustedpencils tonight at 6pm!

[Corri Hess @CorriHess]

Rural Wisconsin school district calls on state to stop funding vouchers https://t.co/p3fQP4yFVG

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Conservative orthodoxy "holds that parents must be given an out from a failing public-education system that force-feeds children progressive fads," @AlecMacGillis writes. But in rural Republican districts, public schools are the hub of community: https://t.co/pAjo6Ip1pO

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Eight years ago today the @nytmag published my cover story on school segregation in the great “melting pot” of NYC and the way elite parents and politicians conspire with structural inequality to keep our schools separate and unequal. Eight years later, this sweet baby girl on the cover is getting ready to graduate 8th grade as a bright, empathetic, funny, honor roll student from @uaunison, a non-screened, neighborhood middle school. By test-score metrics many would label this school a failing school, but just as I write in the piece, we judge these schools AND their students without ever stepping foot inside. My daughter is not worth more than any other child. Eight years later, I still know we made the right choice. https://t.co/JZpzhbNzO3

[All in Wisconsin Action Fund @WisconsinAllin]

Our communities have the power to move our money and fund schools, healthcare & services. #WeBelieveinWisconsin, and we choose a future where all of us have what we need.