It describes the core mission of my campaign: Always Serve Kids. ASK is a simple acronym and a logical mission for the Department of Public Instruction, but it hasn’t been the case for the last eight years. Maybe ever – and that’s the problem with big, centralized government. My opponent and incumbent, Tony Evers, is…
Dr. Lowell Holtz
Fighting for the Children of WI
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who…
Dr. Lowell Holtz
Musical Madness
It’s hard to ‘Always Serve Kids’ (ASK) when they don’t come to school – and truancy is a BIG PROBLEM in many of our communities. In high school, my regular attendance was driven by a few special teachers, my parents’ ire, and a love for playing nose guard and center on our football team. What…
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty
New WILL Study Compares School Performance in Milwaukee, Across Wisconsin
The most comprehensive look at test scores since the School Choice Demonstration Project March 1, 2017 – Milwaukee, WI – For too long, the debate over student achievement in public, charter, and private schools has been muddied by insufficient data and inappropriate apples-to-oranges comparisons. Not anymore. A new WILL study, for the first time using…
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty
WILL Charter School Study Published in Academic Journal
Milwaukee, WI – The Journal of School Choice, an academic journal dedicated to empirical research on school choice, published a recent Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty study by Will Flanders, PhD, on student outcomes per taxpayer dollars spent at public schools in Milwaukee, including charters. You can read the study here. This first-of-its-kind study…
Featured Posts, Larry Bell
Scott Pruitt EPA Swamp- Draining Fear Brings Crocodile Tears
Last Friday’s 56-42 Senate vote confirmation of Scott Pruitt as top EPA administrator brings a very unwelcome political climate change for many of the agency’s 15,000 federal career employees and their executive branch-appointed bosses who fought his approval tooth and claw. Referring to their aggressive and defiant letter-writing and telephone campaign protesting Pruitt’s appointment, Center…