Next week, the legislature is back in session. Both houses will be in session on Tuesday, January 19. They may also be in session on Thursday, January 21. On Tuesday, the State Senate will vote on Senate Bill 43, bipartisan campaign finance reform legislation requiring disclosure of the donors and regulation of the money utilized by...
After a multi-year campaign to start 4-year-old kindergarten in Madison, the Madison school board voted on Monday to join the 80% of Wisconsin school districts with a universal 4K program. The first year of implementation will be 2011-12, and it will be a community collaboration between MMSD and accredited ECE providers. As Supt. Dan...
One of the go-to arguments of the anti-tax camp is that high and growing property tax burdens are forcing lots of elderly people out of the homes they have lived in for decades. Well, according to a new study by Prof. Andy Reschovsky of UW's La Follette School of Public Affairs and economists Rebecca Boldt and Bradley Caruth of the WI...
There will be lots of action in the Capitol this week. Right now, there are a dozen public hearings scheduled Tuesday through Thursday. Here is a list of all the committee hearings scheduled. On Wednesday, the Joint Audit Committee will decide if an audit is needed for the Medical Assistance Program and Educational Programs for Working...
The State Legislature starts the new year with a busy week of hearings. On Tuesday, the Senate Education Committee, chaired by Senator John Lehman (D-Racine), will hold a hearing on Senate Bill 405, which changes the governance structure of Milwaukee Public Schools by making the superintendent a mayoral appointee. The hearing will be...
For those interested in "not so light" reading but in thinking about how various conceptual approaches to juvenile delinquency have developed over time - borrowing from classic crime control approaches to deterrence theories to more recent outcome-based approaches and even more recently youth development ideas - there is an interesting...
You’re motoring along in your Chevy when you notice that your passenger side tires have lost a lot of air, causing the car to list dangerously to the right. So you stop at the nearest service station to let some air out of the tires on the driver’s side to level it out. A press release issued Monday by Wisconsin Manufacturers and...
Perhaps the fundamental challenge in juvenile justice research is understanding what steps or actions the system can take that will redirect youthful offenders from a pathway of offending to a pathway of "desistance" - stopping committing offenses. There are multiple complications in researching delinquency, not the least of which is...
A new report by the Immigration Policy Center finds that immigrants, Latinos, and Asians are an important and growing part of Wisconsin's economy, labor force, and tax base. “New American’s in the Badger State” highlights include:Wisconsin was home to 252,150 immigrants in 2007. 41.2% of immigrants in 2007 (or 103,291 people) in...
OJJDP has recently published a good summary of juvenile arrest rates, based on 2008 data - simply titled "Juvenile Arrests 2008", the data shows that although juvenile crime continues to be of concern, 2008 marks the second year of a decline in rates of arrest in some categories and continues a 15+ year decline overall. Remember that...
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