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Public School Curriculum Transparency Legislation Key to Battling Politics in the Classroom

WILL is urging the adoption of curriculum transparency legislation to arm parents and taxpayers with the ability to access and review controversial curriculum material in public schools. WILL recently issued identical open records requests to nine large Wisconsin school districts and experienced, first-hand, the cost, time, and difficulty of accessing curriculum material.

School Funding and the Pandemic: How Much Money Is Enough?

By: Libby Sobic and Will Flanders, Ph.D. Without fail, each state budget cycle always results in cries from the public school establishment that “we ...

WILL to Biden Education Department: Critical Race Theory is Wrong for Public Schools

WILL submitted public comment to the United States Department of Education against the adoption of a proposed grant program to prioritize Critical Race Theory in federally funded American History and Civics Education

WILL, ADF Warn Kettle Moraine School District Gender Identity Policy Violates Parental Rights

District disregarded parents’ wishes about their child’s gender identity at school The News: Attorneys with The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty ...

Limit UI Benefits to Get Wisconsin Back to Work

Will Flanders, Research Director As the United States comes out of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the policies put in place at its height are no longer ...

A School That Lights Her Fire

How Rocketship Charter Schools Are Serving Their Students By Libby Sobic Wisconsin independent public charter schools have a lot to be proud of – they ...

How Milwaukee College Prep Helps Students Succeed

By: Libby Sobic For the last twenty-four years, four public schools have been educating every K4-8th grade student who has walked through their doors, ...

WILL, SCW Ensure MPS Follows the Law, Provide Transportation Benefits to Private School Students

Thousands of students have been left stranded in 2020-21 school year The News: Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) committed to provide transportation ...