Jan 21, 2022 | General, K-12
Will Flanders, Research Director HOPE Christian Schools, a private Christian school network in Milwaukee, announced their intent to close their high school at the end of the school year. It’s a disappointing announcement because HOPE High represented just what...
Jan 20, 2022 | General, K-12, WILL News
Will Flanders, Research Director Recently, State Superintendent Jill Underly delivered a speech to the Wisconsin State Education Convention. On the whole, the remarks are filled with the sort of inane platitudes that many of us are used to hearing from the leadership...
Jan 3, 2022 | General, K-12, WILL News
Will Flanders and Libby Sobic In the latest chapter of the seemingly never-ending nightmare of school closures, Milwaukee Public Schools decided Sunday, Jan. 2 to return to virtual instruction for the first week of the spring semester, Jan. 3-7. This follows the...
Dec 22, 2021 | General, K-12, WILL News
Will Flanders and Libby Sobic Like an old IPod set on repeat, Milwaukee Public Schools’ attempts to attack and provide misleading data about the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) is a song-and-dance that never stops. In their latest salvo against...
Dec 13, 2021 | General, K-12, WILL News
Libby Sobic and Anthony LoCoco The U.S. Supreme Court recently held oral arguments in Carson v. Makin, a case that challenges Maine’s decision to prevent certain private religious schools from participating in its tuition benefit program for families without access to...
Dec 13, 2021 | General, K-12, WILL News
Will Flanders, Research Director Recently, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) approved Wisconsin’s plan for more than $1.5 billion in federal funds under the COVID-relief package ESSER 3, with one crucial exception: $77 million that was to go to schools that...
