Education
"Our crazy goal 10 or 20 years from now is that we’d like to be able to do this for any kid in Wisconsin," Larry Jackson said.
About 425 students from 28 schools attended sessions on topics including coding, fitness, architecture, money, gratitude and self-image/depictions in the media.
UW-Madison took steps in recent weeks to create new job titles — "teaching professor" and "research professor."
The survey would have asked respondents to rate the effectiveness and professionalism of officers, and collected demographic information.
Parts of the building, including the arch maintained from Central High School's entryway, will be reintegrated into the design of the hotel taking its place.
UW-Whitewater's chancellor search was the first under a new Regent policy. How the process played out there could be a harbinger of chancellor searches to come at other UW campuses.
A lawsuit claims the Middleton-Cross Plains School District violated Ruth Herbin's civil rights in a job search process.
A polar vortex in late January plunged local temperatures to 26 below zero followed by a rapid warming just days later, likely leading to the water damage to 28 UW-Madison buildings.
An after school program from Dane County has been given close to $400,000 in federal funds to continue serving youths at 25 sites in six communities.
The South Side middle school becomes the second Madison school to receive the recognition in a program that is used at more than 6,400 schools throughout the country.
Sennett Middle School students were evacuated to three different facilities Tuesday morning after a gas-like odor was reported.
Also Monday, the School Board chose Gloria Reyes to serve as president and Kate Toews as vice president for the next year.
She was 9 when he, then 20, took the photo. Now they'll speak at an event 47 years to the day after the bombs were dropped.
“It’s exciting because my friends get to see me in my culture and I get to show them what it kind of looks like,” said Jazmine Vang, a fifth-grader at Bird Elementary School in Sun Prairie.
"We have the opportunity to step up, demand better," Edgewood College graduate and commencement speaker Mamadou Jawo told about 400 graduates at Sunday's commencement.
Just one of the 13 campuses requires students to submit immunization records.
New security assistants being hired sooner than expected and an anonymous tip line to report threats and safety concerns are among the changes, the district superintendent said Friday.
Hector Vazquez, who was fired from the Madison School District in 2006, faced a sexual harassment complaint for allegedly creating a hostile learning environment at Jefferson Middle School.
Democrats argued fully funding the technical colleges in this budget cycle would begin to make up for deep cuts made during former Republican Gov. Scott Walker's tenure.
Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham is leaving the district after six years.
Former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl's gift is the largest in the La Follette School of Public Affairs' history. He said it was an easy decision to give so much to the school.
A state law requires that students in health classes receive instruction in cardiopulmonary and cardiocerebral resuscitation once between seventh and 12th grades. They also must receive automated external defibrillator instruction.
As a walk-on football player at UW-Madison who became a star defensive lineman and now plays for the Houston Texans, J.J. Watt offered lessons on pursuing dreams at the university’s spring commencement Saturday.
UW-Madison spring commencement ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis., Saturday, May 11, 2019.
The Madison School District on Friday released updated draft recommendations on high school upgrades for a potential 2020 referendum, which could run up to $280 million.