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WILL has uncovered new education spending data. As students prepare for the 2026-27 school year, DPI has finally released spending data for the 2024-25.  While this continues a pattern of the DPI seemingly dragging it's feet in releasing public school spending information, the data is still illuminating.  Despite the continual refrain that public schools are "underfunded," the data reveals—yet again—spending that is near all-time highs. 

WILL secured a significant victory at the Wisconsin Court of Appeals after they upheld Act 10 in Abbotsford Education Association v. WERC. WILL represented a teacher who supported and benefited from the law signed by Governor Scott Walker in 2011.

WILL has filed a nonparty brief in Bins v. Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC), a lawsuit that is seeking to overturn WEC guidance barring absentee voters from changing their vote after submitting their ballots. That guidance, which merely restates state law, was adopted on July 10.

WILL filed a new lawsuit challenging at least 20 UW-Madison scholarships and grants that contain race-based criteria and are administered with support from taxpayer funds. WILL represents Young America’s Foundation and Citizens Defending Liberty in our second lawsuit challenging race-based state programs since winning a major case at the Wisconsin Supreme Court earlier this year, in which a unanimous Court struck down a racially discriminatory scholarship program.

WILL, in partnership with Heart+Mind Strategies, released “Bridging the Gap,” new public opinion research exploring how populist-leaning conservative voters in Wisconsin view government institutions, as well as ways to reconnect classical conservative principles like federalism, free markets, and trust institutions with values this key audience already holds.

WILL secured a major legal victory for property owners in Sister Bay after the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled that the Village's four-bedroom cap for vacation rentals operates as an illegal "back-door prohibition on renting."