Browsing: Licensing and Regulation

Early childhood and special education teacher Sheila Noordzy has her hands full teaching a class of 18 3-to-5-year-old children in the Chequamegon School District in Park Falls. She often puts in long hours, partly due to federal paperwork that takes her away from working with the children. Federal requirements in special education are especially burdensome, educators tell the Badger Institute in a survey.

Badger State requires higher score on national exam than most other states

Palmer College chiropractic student Amanda Berkley testifies in favor of 2017 AB 834 before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform on January 18, 2018

2017 AB 834 would lower score required for successful completion of chiropractic examinations.

Priorities should include tax reform, corrections, professional licensure and tolling

Funding regulations hamper districts and don’t improve education, local officials say in survey

Several regulations removed from the books, freeing professionals from onerous and unneeded requirements

Paperwork takes staff away from daily responsibilities and educating kids, officials say.
By Julie Grace
November 13, 2017

Hordes of Wisconsin government workers are employed to ‘check boxes’ for the feds

Measures lift onerous restrictions on barbers and cosmetologists that stifle careers and businesses.

U.S. education secretary also plans to give them more say over federal school dollars

ESSA could offer opportunities for state to involve districts in decision-making

School officials make decisions they wouldn’t make otherwise to comply with funding requirements.
By Julie Grace and Dan Benson
September 12, 2017

In London, American swimmer Katie Ledecky won an Olympic gold medal at the age of 15.

“It would more or less put in-state wineries and breweries out of business,” one winery owner says

UW students can’t launch Uber-like haircut business in Wisconsin without action from Legislature

We compiled a list of resources for state policy-makers on issues ranging from professional licensure to transportation funding to corrections reform. This handy brochure includes reports, commentaries and links to videos designed to inform public discourse on issues that will affect Wisconsin residents for years to come

Albert Walker, whose clients include many Packers players, has years of experience but can’t run his own shop

The entire country is in thrall to a large and growing opioid crisis. From celebrity deaths to the ever-growing number…

Ex-offender Albert Walker and Packer Mike Daniels discuss Walker’s new barber lounge in Green Bay. The shop is in jeopardy due to an onerous and unnecessary state licensing law.

Wisconsin currently licenses hundreds of professions. Some of those are unobjectionable, but other licenses are problematic.