Pat McIlheran runs through the dismal performance of Wisconsin students on the NAEP tests.
Tony's lock-em-out strategy--valid for a couple of months, but used to purchase the love and political fealty of teachers' unions after that--had its predictable effect. The scores are bad.
But the most significant predictor of school success had little to do with Evers directly.
...It is worth noting that education results are not the only nation’s-worst racial gap for Wisconsin. No state has a greater racial gap than does Wisconsin in the number of children living in single-parent families. Of the 26 states for which the Annie E. Casey Foundation offers figures for black families, the highest percentage of children in single-parent families is in Wisconsin: 79% in 2019. By contrast, 23% of white children in Wisconsin were living in single-parent families, the 21st-lowest figure. Consequently, the gap between black and white children in Wisconsin, at 56 percentage points, was larger than in any other state. As former Wisconsin Secretary for Families and Children Eloise Anderson, a Badger Institute visiting fellow, pointed out recently, evidence abounds that children living in single-parent families face longer odds in school....'...not Evers directly'?
The Democrat Party has long been the champion of unwed motherhood. The State serves as "daddy" by providing money, food, and shelter. This arrangement keeps 'the community' in the control of The State, exactly where the Democrats wants it. Suburban Republican women are perfectly happy to go along with this, largely because the State's beneficence does not provide suburban living for those 'families.' Thus, they can salve their souls with the mantra that 'it's the right thing to do.'
Except it's really NOT the right thing to do.
Ask anyone who lives in the crime-laden central city.
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