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Why a Racine referendum reflects Wisconsin school money woes

Why a Racine referendum reflects Wisconsin school money woes

Racine is facing a critical moment for K-12 schools funding with a $190 million budget referendum in the spring 2025 election, reflecting ongoing political debates in Wisconsin over education funding.

Soren Gajewski on the costs and long-term value of education

Soren Gajewski on the costs and long-term value of education

Brenda White on Wisconsin school choice program priorities

Brenda White on Wisconsin school choice program priorities

Tony Evers stands and speaks into a microphone, with one out-of-focus person seated in a high-backed leather and wood chair on a wood legislative dais in the background.

Evers vetoes bill that would revive earlier student test score standards for Wisconsin's schools

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on politics in education

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on politics in education

Elon Musk gestures with both hands while sitting in a high-backed leather chair with people seated on either side of him at the head of a table with paper name tents, glasses, papers, a conference call speaker with attached cord and other items on its surface, with another person taking a photo with a camera standing behind them in a room with a fireplace with a double mantel clock and vase on its mantel.

Musk changes reason for visiting Wisconsin to hand out $2 million before the 2025 state Supreme Court election

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on K-12 transgender policy

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on K-12 transgender policy

Landiran Kern, Jr. on work to get out the vote for Crawford

Landiran Kern, Jr. on work to get out the vote for Crawford

John Beauchamp on work to get out the vote for Schimel

John Beauchamp on work to get out the vote for Schimel

Elon Musk steeples his fingers while setting in a high-backed leather chair in a room with a fireplace and lintel in the background.

Musk announces $1 million for Wisconsin voter in 2025 state Supreme Court race, which the opposition calls 'corrupt'

Why Wisconsin’s 2025 schools superintendent election matters

Why Wisconsin's 2025 schools superintendent election matters

A Cybertruck is parked in a circular brick-paved space enclosed by a short concrete barrier, with parked vehicles among light poles, a charging station, and a building with a letter sign reading Tesla in the background.

Tesla is suing Wisconsin to open dealerships, which has become a factor in the 2025 state Supreme Court race

Apache Danforth on plant medicine and legalizing marijuana

Apache Danforth on plant medicine and legalizing marijuana

Soren Gajewski on the costs and long-term value of education

Soren Gajewski on the costs and long-term value of education

Brenda White on Wisconsin school choice program priorities

Brenda White on Wisconsin school choice program priorities

Tony Evers stands and speaks into a microphone, with one out-of-focus person seated in a high-backed leather and wood chair on a wood legislative dais in the background.

Evers vetoes bill that would revive earlier student test score standards for Wisconsin's schools

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on politics in education

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on politics in education

Elon Musk gestures with both hands while sitting in a high-backed leather chair with people seated on either side of him at the head of a table with paper name tents, glasses, papers, a conference call speaker with attached cord and other items on its surface, with another person taking a photo with a camera standing behind them in a room with a fireplace with a double mantel clock and vase on its mantel.

Musk changes reason for visiting Wisconsin to hand out $2 million before the 2025 state Supreme Court election

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on K-12 transgender policy

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on K-12 transgender policy

Landiran Kern, Jr. on work to get out the vote for Crawford

Landiran Kern, Jr. on work to get out the vote for Crawford

John Beauchamp on work to get out the vote for Schimel

John Beauchamp on work to get out the vote for Schimel

Elon Musk steeples his fingers while setting in a high-backed leather chair in a room with a fireplace and lintel in the background.

Musk announces $1 million for Wisconsin voter in 2025 state Supreme Court race, which the opposition calls 'corrupt'

Why Wisconsin’s 2025 schools superintendent election matters

Why Wisconsin's 2025 schools superintendent election matters

A Cybertruck is parked in a circular brick-paved space enclosed by a short concrete barrier, with parked vehicles among light poles, a charging station, and a building with a letter sign reading Tesla in the background.

Tesla is suing Wisconsin to open dealerships, which has become a factor in the 2025 state Supreme Court race

Apache Danforth on plant medicine and legalizing marijuana

Apache Danforth on plant medicine and legalizing marijuana

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Who has momentum for the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court vote?

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Chairman Thomas Fowler on violence against Indigenous women

Chairman Thomas Fowler on violence against Indigenous women

Ilse Knecht on untested rape kits from Wisconsin’s backlog

Ilse Knecht on untested rape kits from Wisconsin's backlog

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

Southeast Region

Wisconsin’s tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

Wisconsin's tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

Greg Clement on tariffs, trade and Wisconsin manufacturing

Greg Clement on tariffs, trade and Wisconsin manufacturing

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A still image from a video shows Matt Joski seated in front of a wall covered in an American flag made of wood and other framed items with a graphic at bottom reading 'Kewaunee,' 'Sheriff Matt Joski' and 'Kewaunee County.'

Sheriff Matt Joski on local enforcement of immigration laws

Northeast Region

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on the Dept. of Education

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on the Dept. of Education

The rape kit backlog and Wisconsin’s 2025 Supreme Court race

The rape kit backlog and Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on education in Wisconsin

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on education in Wisconsin

Abigail Swetz on Trump, LGBTQ+ policy and transgender people

Abigail Swetz on Trump, LGBTQ+ policy and transgender people

‘B’ on their life as a transgender man in public spaces

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Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on politics in education

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on politics in education

Why a Racine referendum reflects Wisconsin school money woes

Why a Racine referendum reflects Wisconsin school money woes

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on K-12 transgender policy

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on K-12 transgender policy

Indigenous

Apache Danforth on plant medicine and legalizing marijuana

Apache Danforth on plant medicine and legalizing marijuana

Chairman Thomas Fowler on violence against Indigenous women

Chairman Thomas Fowler on violence against Indigenous women

Wisconsin’s tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

Wisconsin's tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

In Focus with Saghar Homayounpour: 2024 Teacher of the Year

In Focus with Saghar Homayounpour: 2024 Teacher of the Year

In Focus with John Ridley: Storytelling, film and community

In Focus with John Ridley: Storytelling, film and community

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Southeast Region

Why a Racine referendum reflects Wisconsin school money woes

Why a Racine referendum reflects Wisconsin school money woes

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

Greg Clement on tariffs, trade and Wisconsin manufacturing

Trump Jr. casts the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court race as key to advancing Trump's agenda

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Northeast Region

A still image from a video shows Matt Joski seated in front of a wall covered in an American flag made of wood and other framed items with a graphic at bottom reading 'Kewaunee,' 'Sheriff Matt Joski' and 'Kewaunee County.'

Sheriff Matt Joski on local enforcement of immigration laws

A birthing center in Waupaca closes in the wake of a health system merger

College of Menominee Nation training program and student scholarships left adrift after USDA grant is suspended

Waupun Correctional Institution reports its seventh inmate death in the past 2 years

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South Central Region

Satya Rhodes-Conway speaks into an out-of-focus microphone with the flag of a media organization, with an out-of-focus person standing behind her.

Madison's mayor suspends city clerk over uncounted ballots

Carla Vigue on Native students and 'Relatives' at UW-Madison

Wisconsin Democrats hold 'People vs. Musk' town hall to issue call to action for the 2025 spring election

Wisconsin election officials to depose Madison workers over uncounted ballots

South Central Region News

Northern Region

A printed sign with the seal of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa above the words Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indian Reservation, By Order of the Lac du Flambeau Tribal Council There Shall Be No Trespassing, No Trapping, No Hunting on Tribal Lands by Non-Band Members, Offenders Will Be Prosecuted in the LDF Tribal Court System and contact information is attached to a wood road barrier with a metal chain hanging underneath it above a road covered in snow.

Tribal sovereignty at center of Wisconsin road dispute

Federal judge orders Lac du Flambeau roads to remain open

Wisconsin's rural homelessness crisis and the ongoing fight to do 'more with less'

Wisconsin detects a human bird flu case in Barron County

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West Central Region

Stephen Nick on transports of unhoused people to Eau Claire

Stephen Nick on transports of unhoused people to Eau Claire

David Minor on the Chippewa Valley's health care needs, gaps

US Supreme Court rejects challenge to an Eau Claire schools policy covering transgender students

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Southwest Region

Sydney Widell, Nancy Wedwick on floods, dams and community

Sydney Widell, Nancy Wedwick on floods, dams and community

Dave Eggen on opposing plans to remove dams in the Driftless

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