Education

Ah Yun is the first person of color to lead Marquette, and the Catholic, Jesuit university’s second lay president in its 143-year history.

About 84 percent of Wisconsin’s public schools met or exceeded state expectations for the 2023-24 school year.

The Watertown Unified School District approved a “Gender Support Plan,” Monday, shifting to more restrictive policies for transgender students.

Non-tenure-track faculty at Marquette University say a new promotion structure and pay raises are needed. But the school is claiming a religious exemption.

The Arrowhead Union High School board’s policy committee met Tuesday and unanimously said they would support a resolution directing the Wisconsin Association of School Boards to advocate for “no biological males in female sports.” 

Sources of Strength is a nationally-recognized suicide-prevention program active in hundreds of Wisconsin schools. Advocates say it is one of the few prevention programs that has research behind it showing it can work.

Superior public schools chief Amy Starzecki has been named Superintendent of the Year by the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators — an honor she attributes in part to an improvement in graduation rates and that she says should be shared with the district’s entire staff.

President Joe Biden’s formal apology for federally funded Native American boarding schools is a step in the right direction, some tribal citizens say, but the legacy of forced assimilation at the schools can affect families to this day.

Wisconsin Superintendent Jill Underly let lawmakers and the public know her budget would target the state’s $4.5 billion surplus.

Years of school bullying in Mercer, Wisconsin, culminated in an assault, prompting a Lac du Flambeau Band family to move for their safety.