Jon Styf

1 week ago | thecentersquare.com | Jon Styf

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction has formed a committee to review and set new state report card standards. The committee comes after a bill that would have moved the state back to 2021-22 standards passed the Wisconsin Legislature but was vetoed by Gov. Tony Evers. The committee of more than two dozen educators and leaders from public, private, and charter schools will begin meeting in June. Names of the committee members were not released.

1 week ago | thecentersquare.com | Jon Styf

(The Center Square) – A public hearing will be Wednesday for a bill claiming Gov. Tony Evers’ administration kept $172 million in taxpayer dollars from interest earned on unspent funds since the COVID-19 pandemic. The interest came from a 2023 audit from the Legislative Audit Bureau with an updated number reported to the co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee.

1 week ago | apg-wi.com | Jon Styf

(The Center Square) – A public hearing will be Wednesday for a bill claiming Gov. Tony Evers’ administration kept $172 million in taxpayer dollars from interest earned on unspent funds since the COVID-19 pandemic. The interest came from a 2023 audit from the Legislative Audit Bureau with an updated number reported to the co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee.

1 week ago | apg-wi.com | Jon Styf

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2 weeks ago | thecentersquare.com | Jon Styf

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin saw the unemployment rate drop in all 13 metropolitan areas in April from a month before but those rates were up from April 2024. The rates also went down in 31 of the state’s 35 largest cities month to month while 33 of those cities saw a year over year unemployment rate increase. Those rates came out as the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development published updated workforce profiles of all of the state’s 72 counties.