A look at chronic absenteeism
Feb. 1, 2023
As COVID-19 upended the lives of students around the state, schools across Wisconsin saw a troubling increase in chronic absences.
As COVID-19 upended the lives of students around the state, schools across Wisconsin saw a troubling increase in chronic absences.
Many people in Wisconsin are under the impression that the disastrous probe into the state’s 2020 presidential election conducted by former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is over, as are its costs to taxpayers. They’re wrong, writes Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council President Bill Lueders in the group's most recent "Your Right to Know" column.
The amount paid by taxpayers now stands at more than $2 million, including nearly $1.5 million in legal fees, according to a report by WisPolitics.com.
The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, a nonprofit group that works to protect access to public meetings and records, is now accepting nominations for its annual Openness in Government Awards, or Opees.
Nominations, along with supporting documentation, should be submitted by Friday, Feb. 10, to blueders@gmail.com.
Mary Ruth Schmutzler, former editor of the Deerfield Independent, died on Jan. 18 in Shawano, following a long illness. She was 73.
After graduating, she was named editor of the Deerfield Independent, and in January 1972, she wed Dean Schmutzler in Beaver Dam. In 1974, they moved to Green Bay, where she became the news editor for the Catholic Diocese newspaper The Spirit. The couple also later published the Northeast Wisconsin edition of the Builder/Architect magazine.
When the University of Wisconsin’s two-year colleges were absorbed by regional UW schools in bigger communities, critics worried about the state of higher education in small-town Wisconsin.
When is it wrong, or at least of little usefulness, to ask the people their opinions on public issues?
I have completed my quinquennial agricultural legal reporting duties with a week to spare.
Frederick "Fred" Herman Keller, a longtime reporter for the Sussex Sun, died Thursday, Jan. 12, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He was 91.
Keller worked as a reporter for the newspaper — now Northwest Now — for nearly 40 years. While at the newspaper, he covered city news and sporting events.
Last month, the WNA Foundation opened registration for the Wisconsin Civics Games. We've already had several schools sign up to participate, but we need members' help to reach a wider audience.
The deadline to register is Feb. 20, so the sooner you can spread the word, the better! We've compiled five ways newsrooms can help promote participation and foster civic engagement among Wisconsin youth.
We owe it to future generations to protection the freedoms provided by the First Amendment, writes Gibraltar High School senior Annalee Mize.
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