MPS Virtue Signals By Masking Students, And This Is Not Okay

Apr 20, 2022 | WILL News

By: Dr. Will Flanders In the aftermath of Monday’s ruling by a federal judge that mask mandates on airlines and public transportation were unconstitutional, scenes of passengers and flight attendants gleefully ripping off their face masks have been seen all over...

The Parent Bill of Rights Would Help This Mom Protect Her Daughter

Mar 8, 2022 | General, WILL News

By: Cori Petersen “Once she uttered the words ‘maybe I’m a boy’ that’s all they saw. She was no longer a young girl with mental health issues, she was now a young boy who was born in the wrong body,” said a mom from Kettle Moraine, Wisc. whose sixth-grade daughter...

The Truth About Wisconsin’s Education Reform Bills

Mar 7, 2022 | General, WILL News

By: Libby Sobic and Will Flanders Several education reform bills advance to the Wisconsin senate floor tomorrow. This blog addresses four different misunderstandings about the bills—AB 970 / SB 974, AB 963 / SB 962 and AB 968 / SB 964. Expanding school choice programs...

COVID-19 School Closures Did, In Fact, Hurt Student Proficiency

Feb 24, 2022 | K-12 Education, Policy

By: Shannon Whitworth The state of our schools today, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, has a lot of people concerned.  With kids out of school for so long, it is no wonder that proficiency rates in key academic areas are declining. In fact, a study out earlier...

A Community Center, Soon-to-Be Choice School, for Mattoon

Jan 31, 2022 | General, WILL News

By: Cori Petersen Mattoon, Wisc. had a population of 467 in 2019. It is a very rural village and doesn’t have much: a grocery store, a gas station, a bar, a factory, and several churches. As of 2016 Mattoon hasn’t even had a school since the town of Antigo centralized...