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Fall 2026 Referendum Recap: The Lowest November Pass Rate Since 2011
Voters in 72 Wisconsin school districts decided 79 referendum questions, and 44 of them passed...
How School Climate Affects Your Bottom Line
In order to do its job and serve its community, every school and district fundamentally needs ...
The Best Way to Communicate with Your Community…
Want to Inform Your Community? Paper Remains Strong…and is Getting Stronger!
As he looks forward, Robert Smith leaves a path behind
This is part 5 of an ongoing series tracking fictional freshman Robert Smith and how Opening Doors ...
Robert finds out what he’s ready for – and what he’s not
This is part 4 of an ongoing series tracking fictional freshman Robert Smith and how Opening Doors ...
Robert Smith starts mapping the path from here to college
This is part 3 of an ongoing series tracking fictional freshman Robert Smith and how Opening Doors ...
Robert Smith gets a picture of his future
This is part 2 of an ongoing series tracking fictional freshman Robert Smith and how Opening Doors ...
High school is two months away. Here’s who's already worried about it.
We ask outgoing eighth-graders a handful of questions every year: do you ...
Five things we learned from our survey work this year.
We look at a lot of data over the course of a school year—staff, student, parent, and community ...
Five years later: what’s up, what’s down, and who we should be worried about.
We do this exercise twice a year. At the midpoint and again at the end ...
Opening Doors helps Robert Smith adjust to high school
This is part 1 of an ongoing series tracking fictional freshman Robert Smith ...
Survey says: Everyone wants students to learn life skills
How should we measure the success of our schools? If you ask 50 people ...
April 2026 Referendum Results: Trends & Analysis
How this spring compares with recent April election cycles ...
Community scores are improving – make a plan to keep the momentum going
We’ve done more than 1,400 community surveys ...
This isn’t our first rodeo! A midyear results roundup.
Two times each year (once around the first semester mark and the other in June), we compile all our ...
The “three Cs” for cell phone policies
Last fall, a new Wisconsin law required schools to adopt a policy that prohibits students from using ...