Last week, the Wisconsin legislature’s Joint Finance Committee held public listening sessions about the 2023-2025 state-wide budget. They will start rewriting Governor Evers proposed budget next month. In Evers budget, […]
More Schooling Equals a Better Job, Right?
A UW-Green Bay professor argues that linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. Jon Shelton joins us on A Public Affair to discus his forth coming book The […]
UW’s Free Speech Survey Debacle
A plan to circulate a conservative-backed student survey regarding “free speech” on the University of Wisconsin System’s twenty-six campuses played a key role in Jim Henderson’s unexpected resignation last week […]
Learning from the Chicago Teachers Strike
The Chicago Teachers Union scored a victory for their district last week, following an eleven-day teachers strike that made national headlines. For today’s episode, guest host Richelle Wilson brings the […]
Rebroadcast: Teacher Strikes, Labor Unions, and Academic Freedom
Today’s episode is a rebroadcast from September 10, 2018. Throughout 2018, the United States saw statewide teacher strikes in Oklahoma and Arizona. And in recent news, members of the Los […]
Teacher Strikes, Labor Unions, and Academic Freedom with Jon Shelton
Earlier this year, the United States saw statewide teacher strikes in Oklahoma and Arizona. And in recent news, members of the Los Angeles teachers’ union have voted overwhelmingly to authorize […]
