In an April 26 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, “State ranks 6th in prekindergarten access,” Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) was quoted as saying, “As Wisconsin has added more 4-year-old kindergartens, our fourth-grade reading scores have plummeted.” The graph below clearly shows that his assertion is completely false. 4th grade reading test scores for Wisconsin as a whole have stayed steady, with 80% or more 4th graders at advanced or proficient reading levels.
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A Place to Call Home Wisconsin has been shaped by successive waves of newcomers seeking refuge, opportunity, and a place to call home. From the Indigenous peoples who have inhabited these lands for millennia, to the waves of early European settlers who established...
Last Friday, Governor Evers blocked three bills that would have let Wisconsin’s wealthiest off the hook from paying what they owe and made the state’s racial wealth disparities even worse.
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