Yesterday, State Representative Lee Snodgrass created a firestorm with her Tweet, “If parents who want to have a say in their child’s education should home school or pay for private school out of their family budget.” She posted this while the Assembly Committee on Education held a public ...
Study finds academic performance drops in math and English for schools that started 2020-21 school year closed.
The News: A new study from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) finds that Wisconsin schools that closed for in-person learning to start the 2020-21 school year saw ...
By: Cori Petersen
Mattoon, Wisc. had a population of 467 in 2019. It is a very rural village and doesn’t have much: a grocery store, a gas station, a bar, a factory, and several churches. As of 2016 Mattoon hasn’t even had a school since the town of Antigo centralized the schooling and has ...
By: Libby Sobic and Will Flanders
After the “year of school choice,” it is important not to get complacent as attacks on school choice and autonomy from traditional districts continue. And National School Choice Week is a good time to consider what obstacles stand in the way of parent choice. ...
By: Will Flanders, Research Director
As we come to the close of National School Choice Week, there are many things worthy of celebration. Across the nation, more students than ever before have the ability to access the school that works best for them and their family. In Wisconsin, ...
By: Libby Sobic
National School Choice Week is an opportunity to celebrate innovative schools that are striving to provide high-quality academics for each of their students. And The Lincoln Academy, a public charter school in Beloit, is doing just that.
Only in its first year, The Lincoln ...
No results found.