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Three Years of Covering the State We Love
At Schwarz’s Supper Club in St. Anna, you still put your name in at the door, order an old fashioned at the bar and wait for your table. Ziggy and Evelyn…
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Two Audits of DPI Slip to Late Fall; State Won’t Say Why
Two state audits of the Department of Public Instruction are running late, and the agency conducting them won’t say why. The nonpartisan Legislative Audit…
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Everything Wrong With Wisconsin’s Education Bureaucracy in One Speech
If you tuned into State Superintendent Jill Underly’s “State of Education” address at the Capitol Thursday, you witnessed a classic (and predictable) display…
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Report: Wisconsin charter school growth hindered by funding gaps and unstable approval system
Wisconsin was among the first states to authorize charter schools, but a new report indicates that funding disparities, political uncertainty, and an…
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Delay, Deny, Deflect: Inside Wisconsin’s Government Transparency Problem
Wisconsin’s Public Records Law begins with one of the strongest declarations of open government in the nation. “The denial of public access generally is…
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Portrait of Deceit: Public Records Prove DPI Misled Wisconsinites About “Portrait of a Graduate” Steering Committee
When State Superintendent Jill Underly launched Wisconsin’s “Portrait of a Graduate” initiative in late May, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI)…
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DPI’s “Portrait” of Secrecy: Why Won’t the State Reveal its Education Steering Committee Members?
When a state agency launches a massive new initiative to redefine what public education looks like, you would think they would want to brag about the people…
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DOJ Prod Gets DPI to Release $8M Forward Exam Workplan & Waterpark Workshop Details
It took 14 months, a mountain of ignored requests, the retention of a respected public policy legal powerhouse and a formal intervention by the Wisconsin…
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Dairyland Sentinel Asks AG Kaul to Force DPI Open Records Compliance
The Dairyland Sentinel filed a formal request Tuesday asking Attorney General Josh Kaul to intervene after the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction…
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Autism Advocate: Why Congress Must Investigate Wisconsin’s DPI
By Kyle Maichle, Americans for Autism Advocacy Wisconsin families and taxpayers deserve answers. Recent reporting by Dairyland Sentinel has raised deeply…
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Did DPI put local school districts at risk of federal audit?
Tomorrow at 10:00 AM, the Joint Committee on Finance is scheduled to decide the fate of $2 million in supplemental funding for the Department of Public…
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Make Do with Less? Not DPI.
The Department of Public Instruction spends nearly $400,000 on a four-day Waterpark Workshop… two years later they’re encouraging teachers practice “scrappiness.”
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DPI Stonewalls Public: Where’s the Secret Waterpark Workshop Contract?
By Dairyland Sentinel Publisher Brian Fraley DPI has a transparency problem that is quickly becoming a legal one. After a year of stonewalling our…
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Time to Put the Public into DPI
Wisconsin’s Constitution still requires voters to elect a state superintendent of public instruction. That official then runs the Department of Public…
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DPI response fails to make the grade
A Dairyland Sentinel perspectives column by Brian Fraley The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has many problems. They’re self righteous, secretive…
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The list: Did an employee from your school attend the $368k dollar DPI waterpark conference?
By Brian Fraley, Publisher, Dairyland Sentinel When the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released its technical report on the 2024 Forward…
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Delayed DPI Records Reveal Taxpayers Soaked with $368K Water Park Resort Bill to Weaken State Exam Standards
By Brian Fraley, Dairyland Sentinel Publisher UPDATE 6:18pm As a result of Dairyland Sentinel’s reporting, this afternoon the Joint Finance Committee delayed…
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One Year Later: Dairyland Sentinel, Institute for Reforming Government Press DPI for Transparency on Forward Exam Changes
More than a year after first seeking public records related to changes to Wisconsin’s Forward Exam benchmarks, Dairyland Sentinel is escalating its effort to…
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Five Times Wisconsin Government Failed Miserably in 2025
A depressing look back at the year that was in Madison
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More on DPI Deceit
A Perspectives Column by George Mitchell I’ve said it here before. Half-truths are the worst kind of lie. Merriam-Webster and Oxford explain: they “convey…
