Puts State Superintendent Evers on Notice
April 20, 2018 - Milwaukee, WI - WILL Attorneys CJ Szafir and Libby Sobic submitted testimony to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) that their proposed regulations violate state law – the rulemaking process in chapter 227 – and could be subject ...
WILL Research Director, Dr. Will Flanders and WILL Writer and Research Associate Cori O'Connor write in the Washington Examiner:
School reformers agree that one essential step to improving education is giving consumers—parents and students—access to better information when choosing a school. ...
New peer-reviewed study ranks every K-12 school in Wisconsin
April 17, 2018 - Milwaukee, WI - The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) released its second annual report comparing school academic performance across Wisconsin, Apples to Apples. In this new peer-reviewed study, ...
Statement by WILL President and General Counsel, Rick Esenberg
April 13, 2018 - Milwaukee, WI - Today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court of Wisconsin has agreed to hear oral arguments in Koschkee v. Evers, WILL’s case about whether the State Superintendent of Public Instruction violated ...
WILL's Research Director, Dr. Will Flanders, writes at Real Clear Education:
But in a number of other states with conservative leadership, progress on ESAs has been much slower. In Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi, for example, efforts to advance school choice have failed in the legislature ...
Today we sent a letter to the Department of Public Instruction, raising significant legal concerns with DPI's recent Statement of Scopes (rulemaking process). In the letter, we explain:
DPI has not complied with the REINS Act with respect to the Scope Statements.
Two of the Scope ...