Will Flanders, Research Director
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recently attempted to make the case for masking in schools by citing a number of different studies that purported to show their positive effects in a series of tweets. However, his use of one study out of Wisconsin shows ...
Will Flanders, Research Director
The Assembly and Senate passed a common-sense reform to make data on school-level spending available to the public in a user-friendly, online portal. Assembly Bill 387/Senate Bill 373 received bi-partisan support in the Assembly, along with the endorsement ...
Will Flanders, Research Director
Friday, September 17, is a critically important day for school districts around the state of Wisconsin. Some schools in the Milwaukee Public School system have put up signs encouraging students to attend, and a popular lunch item - “mock chicken leg” - is on ...
By: Miranda Spindt
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is taking the country’s public schools by storm and was at the forefront of a joint Education Committee hearing in Wisconsin on August 11. A bill that would require school boards to make curriculum accessible to the public was accompanied by ...
By Will Flanders and Rick Esenberg
In the modern information environment, it is challenging to find any source of objective information. On no issue is this more true than with the COVID-19 pandemic. On one side are those wedded to “the science” until it disagrees with their preconceived ...
By Miranda Spindt and Will Flanders
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a growing concern for parents in Wisconsin and around the nation. School choice is often offered as the answer by conservatives to families looking for alternatives. However, there is growing concern private education may not ...