Senator Chris Larson

However, due to the way this program was funded, schools are only getting 35% of special ed costs covered by the state.

Today, I joined a united Democratic Caucus in introducing a bill that would keep our promise to local schools by fully funding the 45% reimbursement rate included in the budget.

Unreimbursed special education costs are a top driver of the school referendum explosion in Wisconsin. The 2025-27 state budget was supposed to fund 42% of these costs for local schools this year and 45% next year - far short of what is needed, but a significant increase from where we were before.

Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.

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Ted Mitchell, the head of the nation's largest association of Universities and Colleges, predicts that "if we were going to eliminate preferences for men, the undergraduate population would skew to 65% female overnight."

Women have outnumbered men in university enrollments since 1979, and the gap continues to widen. In response, many universities implemented gender-balancing programs to try to close the gap. New regulations for race and gender-blind admissions threaten to undo these efforts.

The Trump Administration can't seem to do anything quite right - even when what they're trying to do is very, very wrong. It turns out their attempts to end DEI in college admissions might actually pose the biggest problems for men.

If we don’t focus first and foremost on basic needs like housing, nutrition, healthcare, and education, we will never attain the level of community safety we deserve.

To achieve true “liberty and justice,” it must be FOR ALL.

So much of what we call public safety spending in Wisconsin and across the U.S. is directed toward punishment rather than prevention. There are many problems with this approach, but the bottom line is that it simply doesn’t work.

Delaying or forgoing care today means worse outcomes (and higher costs) down the road. Universal healthcare now!

Our American healthcare system is a disgrace. More than one-third of people who have health insurance have skipped or delayed needed care in the past 12 months because they don't think they can afford it. Among uninsured individuals, that rate climbs to three in 4.

Delaying or forgoing care today means worse outcomes (and higher costs) down the road. Universal healthcare now!

Our American healthcare system is a disgrace. More than one-third of people who have health insurance have skipped or delayed needed care in the past 12 months because they don't think they can afford it. Among uninsured individuals, that rate climbs to three in 4.

With today’s tree lighting ceremony, it’s officially the holiday season at the State Capitol.

If you’re in the area, it’s well worth the trip inside to check out the beautiful decorations - many of which were created by Wisconsin schoolchildren.

It's a low bar, but one that this Administration seems disinterested in even attempting to meet.

You really gotta hand it to the Trump Administration - Secretary Pete Hegseth is being investigated for war crimes - and we're not even at war. It's almost impressive in a perverse sort of way.

We need leaders who follow the Constitution and who respect the tenets of the Geneva Conventions.

We have no reason to take anything that comes from this White House or this administration at face value. There is almost always a lie, ulterior motive, or both at play.

America deserves leaders we can trust, and right now, we’re nowhere close.

At the same time the President is ordering the illegal murder of dozens of people off the coast of Venezuela for suspected drug trafficking, he has pardoned the former Honduran president, who was serving a decades-long prison sentence for his role in - you guessed it - drug trafficking.

Extremists want us locked up in a debate about who deserves healthcare and who doesn't. It's a distraction to protect the current broken system we have now. Don't fall for it!

Medical debt should not exist in the richest country in the world.

We should be creating a system that guarantees healthcare to every American with no out of pocket costs - one that rewards providers for better patient outcomes, not just the quantity of services provided.

4 in 10 Americans have some form of medical debt. This can take on many forms - all of which present a huge burden for families. It also creates a tremendous drag on the wider economy as people forgo other spending to pay off this debt.

Affordability isn't just about prices - it's about making sure everyone is compensated fairly for their work.

Since 1979, worker productivity has gone up 87.3%, while avg pay has increased just 32.7%, per the the Economic Policy Institute.

Where did all the money go, if not into worker's pockets? It went mostly to high-paid executives and increased profits for shareholders, leaving 80% of workers behind.

That's an amazing return on investment, to say nothing of the millions of lives saved and human suffering averted.

I strongly urge you & your family to seek out all vaccinations recommended by the WI Dept of Health Services. Don't let this anti-science federal regime affect your loved ones' health.

Vaccines save lives. That RFK Jr is using his position to actively undermine vaccinations in the U.S. without presenting any real evidence of his wild claims about them is reckless and immoral.

Every $1 invested in vaccines returns $20 in saved healthcare costs, lost wages, and lost productivity.

Making matters worse, the deportation happened in defiance of a court order.

The Trump Admin doesn’t care about due process or the rule of law - they just scapegoat immigrants because they are incapable or unwilling to solve any of our nation’s most pressing issues and they need someone to blame.

Imagine going to the airport to fly home from college to surprise your family on Thanksgiving. Then, after making it through security you are detained by immigration officials and deported to a country you haven’t visited since you were 7 years old.

That’s what happened to Any Lucia Lopez Belloza.

That same uncle's claim that he "actually drives better" when he's had a few drinks is just as bogus. As few as 2 drinks could put you over the legal limit, and depending on other factors, even one glass of wine could impair your ability to drive.

Don't be a turkey - if you drink, just don't drive

Despite what your annoying uncle might say, turkey is not going to make you fall asleep. It would take about 20 servings of Thanksgiving turkey to give you enough tryptophan to equal a single dose of a sleep aid supplement.

Every job has dignity.
Every working person deserves a living wage.

Medical debt should not exist - and yet it’s one of the top reasons Americans file for bankruptcy.

Any healthcare plan that doesn’t start with the recognition that medical care is a basic human right grossly misses the mark.