WILL-supported legislation would have required districts to post classroom material online
The News: Governor Tony Evers vetoed curriculum transparency legislation (SB 463/ AB 488), Friday, denying parents access to the classroom materials in our public schools. The Wisconsin Institute for Law ...
New WILL policy brief offers three ways to immediately improve the report card
The News: The recent release of Wisconsin’s state report cards for individual districts and schools proved, once again, that the current composition of the report card is not doing enough to reveal the true state of ...
Will Flanders, Research Director
Wisconsin’s recently released state report cards for the 2020-21 school year paint a relatively rosy picture: 399 (out of 422) districts “Met”, “Exceeded”, or “Greatly Exceeded” expectations according to the data. But these report cards seem to be whistling ...
School board meeting will clarify policy on parental observation
The News: The Kenosha Unified School District (KUSD) agreed to allow a parent to observe her son’s classroom after the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) issued a letter reminding the district of the requirements ...
WILL Director of Education Policy, Libby Sobic, participated in a panel discussion at the 2021 American Federation for Children (AFC) conference on the topic of "Legal Challenges and Opportunities for School Choice."
Federal law grants all parents the right to “observ[e] classroom activities” in public schools.
The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) issued a letter, on behalf of a parent, to Kenosha Unified School District (KUSD) Superintendent, Dr. Bethany Ormseth, urging the ...