Nov 26, 2018 | Education Reform, ER Commentary, In the News
Best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host, Larry Elder, notes our Apples to Apples report, writing in Investor’s Business Daily: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty wrote last year: “The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program...
Nov 13, 2018 | Education Reform, ER Commentary, Uncategorized, WILL News
Data from the newly released state report card reveals that more charter schools and private schools in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) are meeting or exceeding expectations than Milwaukee Public Schools. More than 80% of Independent Charters, more than...
Nov 12, 2018 | Education Reform, ER Commentary, In the News
WILL’s Executive Vice President, CJ Szafir and Researcher Cori Petersen write at the Wall Street Journal about how Milwaukee Public Schools refuse to sell vacant schools to Milwaukee’s charter schools. St. Marcus then tried to purchase the vacant Lee...
Oct 25, 2018 | Education Reform, ER Commentary, In the News
WILL Research Director, Will Flanders, PhD, wrote in the Washington Examiner about the “absurd drama” that played out in Shorewood, WI over the school’s decision to put on, then cancel, a production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” But a...
Oct 2, 2018 | Education Reform, ER Commentary
Today, DPI released the Forward Exam test scores – mandated for grades 3-8 in math and English language Arts (ELA) for children at traditional public, public charter, and private schools (in the choice program). Per usual, we will do our deeper dive later in the year...
Sep 26, 2018 | Education Reform, ER Commentary
The following blog post was written by Dr. Will Flanders, WILL Research Director, and Libby Sobic, WILL Associate Counsel. SOS Wauwatosa, an anti-School Choice group, has put out a candidate questionnaire that purports to seek the honest opinions of candidates in the...
