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One City schools will give its educators fewer work days each week this fall without cutting students’ instructional time. The Madison charter school announced June 10 it would cut work weeks for its teachers, assistant teachers and student support personnel to four...

An economist with UW-Madison argues the state should focus more on developing “homegrown” businesses rather than recruiting companies to move to Wisconsin. “Going out and trying to recruit that business is not a good use of their time,” Prof. Steven Deller said...

U.S. News & World Report has ranked Children’s Wisconsin in eight specialties and #1 in Wisconsin as part of the new 2022-23 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings published online today. This ranking is just one of a number of awards that recognizes Children’s...

STEAM & Dream, a program created by the Milky Way Tech Hub that prepares BIPOC students for careers in STEM fields, recently launched a national city tour to Atlanta, Milwaukee, Chicago and Phoenix. The Milky Way Tech Hub is a Milwaukee group founded by Nadiyah...

Investii Inc., a company whose behavioral finance platform encourages consumers to save money, will receive a $100,000 investment through nationally ranked startup accelerator gener8tor’s 2022 Madison program, according to a Monday press release. Wisconsin-based...

Three girls pitched their small businesses to a panel of judges that included former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter on Friday at the American Family Insurance Spark building. Jeter, a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee and five-time World Series champion, had strong...

EnsoData Inc., a Madison health care artificial intelligence startup, got its start in the world of sleep medicine with technology that automates sleep study data to help providers diagnose sleep apnea more quickly and accurately. Coming off of a recent $20 million...

Zywave, a fast-growing insurance tech company in the Milwaukee area, said Thursday it purchased Columbus, Ohio-based Strategic Insurance Software. Zywave, which is based in Wauwatosa, has acquired its ninth business in three years with the purchase of Strategic...

Eleven small businesses in Wisconsin, including two from Milwaukee, will receive a total of up to $900,000 to commercialize their innovations as part of the state’s SBIR Advance program, according to a Tuesday news release. Milwaukee-based Rapid Radicals Technology, a...

Milwaukee-based A.O. Smith Corp. has acquired Florida-based water treatment company Atlantic Filter Corp. in an all-cash transaction. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition marks the fifth company A.O. Smith has bought to grow its North American water...

Wisconsin residents will not pay any more next year to attend the state’s universities. The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a tuition freeze for in-state undergraduate students Thursday as part of the 2022-23 operating budget. Newly appointed...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with returning guest Grady Buchanan, managing director for NVNG Investment Advisors. He discusses a new platform created by NVNG to increase visibility for startups in Wisconsin. Buchanan discusses the origins of...

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says pending federal legislation aims to bolster U.S. supply chains for critical products such as microchips. Speaking at a WisPolitics.com event this week in Washington, D.C., the Madison Dem discussed the latest iteration of the bill, now...

Georgia-Pacific’s 1915 Studios accelerator program in northeast Wisconsin is recruiting startups for its next cohort, due to kick off in September. The program was launched last year by the Atlanta-based pulp and paper company in partnership with startup accelerator...

Benny, a platform that helps consumers build wealth with their benefits, has closed a $1 million pre-seed funding round, the company announced recently. According to a release, the round was led by Matchstick Ventures, and the funds will be used to accelerate Benny’s...

For the first time, the positions of president and vice president of the University of Wisconsin System's Board of Regents are held by women after the board elected its new leadership in Milwaukee on Friday. Karen Walsh has become the third woman to lead the Board of...

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has received approval to establish a bachelor of business administration degree in business communication, the first degree of its kind in the UW System. The UW System Board of Regents on Friday approved the new major, expanding...