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The number of Milwaukee children using publicly funded vouchers to attend private schools increased 4% in 2009, while the total number of voucher schools decreased significantly for the first time in years, according to data released this week by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Give me some adjectives to describe your school, the visitor asked a couple of dozen eighth-graders at the Hmong American Peace Academy. Peaceful, one volunteered. Dependable, another said. Successful. Educational.

A pair of recent reports on state economies and federal stimulus dollars should deliver this warning for public school funding in Wisconsin: It's likely to get worse.

On the same day the federal government flicked a green light for states to apply for $4 billion in competitive education reform grants, the fate of two of Gov. Jim Doyle's key initiatives remained uncertain.

Traditional playground bullying has moved online and onto cell phones, where teenagers gang up to taunt others and exchange personal material, and school officials say they are struggling to keep up.

Gov. Jim Doyle signed a bill Monday allowing teachers to be evaluated - but not disciplined or dismissed - based on student performance.

The search for the next superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools is about to collide with the fight over mayoral governance, now that lawmakers are putting the final touches on legislation that would allow Milwaukee's mayor to lead the system and appoint the superintendent.

Metro Milwaukee school districts on average will increase property taxes by 4.96% in 2009-'10, with increases in eight school districts hitting the double digits, according to information from districts in Milwaukee and three suburban counties.

Student test data can be used to evaluate teachers' performances but not to discipline or dismiss them, under a bill passed Thursday by the Senate as part of a package of education-related initiatives.

Student test data can be used to evaluate teachers' performances but not to discipline or dismiss them, under a bill passed Thursday by the Senate as part of a package of education-related initiatives.