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 is possible, with the right ...
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 of bureaucratic agencies. ...
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 Madison Metropolitan School ...
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 providing families with educational ...
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 a local public high ...
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 offered more in-person ...