Search Results: DEI (21)

The Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted 6-4 to instruct the state auditor to find out what has come of Gov. Tony Evers’ 2019 order to make “diversity, equity and inclusion,” or DEI, a central feature of agencies’ plans and to corral every state employee into “mandatory equity and inclusion training.” 

Pushing back on a Gov. Tony Evers veto protecting the University of Wisconsin System’s extensive diversity, equity and inclusion infrastructure, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is asking for legislative committee approval to again remove $32 million from the system’s budget unless it dismantles its DEI programs.

If the vast UW System Diversity, Equity and Inclusion effort — which costs approximately $32 million biennially — is so necessary, why is it such a failure?

The Trump Administration’s focus on federal grants is part of a fundamental dispute over whether Americans should adhere to the Tenth Amendment.

Pat McIlheran and Meg Ellefson look back on 2024’s top education stories — and ahead to what awaits in the…

Wisconsinites are increasingly interracial, challenging a deeply embedded and divisive system that relies on racial categories to apportion billions of dollars in government programs and subsidies in the name of equity.

Government overregulation is imperiling the start of a $1 billion plan to expand broadband service to the hardest-to-reach places in Wisconsin.

Here at the Badger Institute, we still believe in the American Dream, in America, and in Wisconsin. Your generosity makes it possible for the Badger Institute to uphold the principles of free enterprise, liberty and limited government.

A formal agreement passed by the regents says that UW-Madison will seek philanthropic support to create an endowed chair that will focus on conservative political thought, classical economic theory or classical liberalism, depending on the donor’s interest.

The unions’ lawsuit to overturn Wisconsin’s “Act 10” 2011 labor reforms isn’t primarily about money.

At a time when the job market is begging for graduates with bachelor’s degrees, the opportunity for many Black students to earn a college degree is being squandered. The number of Black students entering UW-Milwaukee — the UW school with the largest Black population — has been steadily decreasing in recent years.

The biggest policy decisions in the Badger State are made during budget deliberations. Here is how your support has helped spur policy ideas into tangible action:

Tucked away in Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget is nearly $3 million for a new cabinet-level chief equity officer and 18 new equity officers assigned throughout state government departments and agencies. The governor’s request comes at a time when diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs are under fire in higher education, business and in government for fundamental unfairness and divisiveness and a failure to achieve their intended goals.   

Spending & Accountability Journalism and fiscal analysis to hold Wisconsin’s state government accountable Featured Research How “Free” Federal Money Costs…

If schools want to impose belief systems on students, parents should have the right to choose their schools.

Viewpoints Increased choice funding — and Ramirez family’s generosity — will help thousands flourishBy Patrick McIlheranAugust 10, 2023 Now that…

Oct. 29-30, 2020 Can we look at the states as “laboratories of democracy,” as Louis Brandeis famously called them, in…

Fewer barriers mean barbers and stylists are now free to own and grow their businesses beyond shops and salons

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

Will Mary Burke be the Democrats’ next Patrick Lucey?