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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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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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UW-Madison Stalls on Promised Conservative Chair as Accountability Questions Mount
By Brian Fraley, Dairyland Sentinel The University of Wisconsin-Madison has yet to fulfill a high-profile 2023 agreement with state lawmakers to hire a…
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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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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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Five Times Wisconsin Government Failed Miserably in 2025
A depressing look back at the year that was in Madison
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275 Days Later: Underly, DPI Still Withhold Public Records on Lowering of State Education Standards
As of Thursday, October 23, 2025, it will have been 275 days since the Dairyland Sentinel filed a lawful open-records request with the Wisconsin Department…
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WILL Urges DPI to Overhaul School Report Cards for Greater Transparency
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) submitted a detailed set of recommendations to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) on…
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Wisconsin Lawmakers Probe DPI Over School Report Cards, Testing Standards
March 5, 2025 State legislators kicked off an audit Tuesday targeting the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s school report cards and testing…
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Milwaukee Has Stopped Providing Ridership Data for Beleaguered Streetcar
The controversial Milwaukee Streetcar, or The Hop, has experienced fluctuating ridership since starting operations in November 2018, with initial projections…
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Legislative Audit Bureau Highlights Work From Last Two Years
Wisconsin’s Legislative Audit Bureau has published a summary of their work from 2023 and 2024. The biennial report, which is required under Wisconsin…
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Parents Frustrated with Lack of Access to School District Data, Survey Finds
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), in collaboration with the national, nonpartisan education reform organization 50CAN, has released a new…
