Research & Commentary

• The Federalist | “Democrats Claim Public Schools Mostly Run By Democrats Are Deeply Racist.” – October 9, 2024 – Dan Lennington & Will Flanders

• Milwaukee Journal Setinel | “Arguments that Wisconsin schools are underfunded fall flat. Data shows otherwise.” – September 23, 2024 – Will Flanders & Shannon Whitworth

• WisPolitics | “School choice is a life preserver, not an anchor” – August 21, 2024 – Will Flanders

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | “ Central count for absentee ballots problematic. There’s a better way Milwaukee. | Opinion” – May 15, 2024 – Will Flanders and Lucas Vebber

• Real Clear Education | “How to Create Wins for Public and Private Schools” – February 27, 2024 – Will Flanders

2023

• The Post-Crescent | “Wisconsin education officials wrongly label Black students as ‘at-risk’” – July 6, 2023 – Daniel Lennington & Will Flanders
• Wisconsin State Journal | “Will Flanders and Cory Brewer: Private choice schools treat all students fairly” – June 26, 2023 – Will Flanders & Cory Brewer

• The Federalist | “By Tackling Imaginary Racism In School Discipline, The Biden Admin Is Making Classrooms Less Safe” – June 12, 2023 – Will Flanders
• RealClearEducation | “Blame Universities for High Student Default Rates” – January 12, 2023 – Will Flanders & Cori Petersen

2022

• RealClearEducation | “Education Schools Are Pushing the Classroom Leftward” – September 2, 2022 – Will Flanders & Dylan Palmer
• The Federalist | “Gun Owners Are Racist, According To Academics Using Bad Science” – August 29, 2022 – Daniel Lennington & Will Flanders
• The Federalist | “Excusing Misbehavior Is Bad For Kids And Schools, But That’s What Biden Admin Wants To Do For ‘Equity’” – July 11, 2022 – Will Flanders
• The Cap Times | “Opinion | Wisconsin not meeting demand for charter schools” – May 21, 2022 – Will Flanders
• RealClearEducation | “New Biden Rules Could Chill Charters” – April 1, 2022 – Will Flanders

2021

• The Federalist | “What’s Behind The Massive Spike In Violence Inside Public Schools Nationwide” – December 1, 2021 – Daniel Lennington & Will Flanders
• RealClearEducation | “Biden Signals Return to Obama’s Misguided School Discipline Policies” – October 18, 2021 – Will Flanders
• The Cap Times | “Opinion | State needs to reform licensing requirement to address teacher shortage” – September 30, 2021 – Will Flanders & Jessica Holmberg
• Urban Milwaukee | “Poll Shows Democrats Split On School Choice” – August 18, 2021 – Will Flanders & Noah Diekemper
• The Hill | “Act 10 benefited education in Wisconsin — and may empower workers elsewhere” – July 23, 2021 – Rick Esenberg & Will Flanders
• The Federalist | “Joe Biden Plans To Revive School Rules Punishing Kids According To Skin Color” – May 21, 2021 – Will Flanders

2020

• RealClearEducation | “Will Students Return to Public Schools After the Pandemic?” – December 28, 2020 – Will Flanders & Cori Petersen
• The Hill | “Closing classrooms may cost school districts thousands of students for years to come” – December 28, 2020 – Will Flanders & Ben DeGrow
• The Hill | “Are teachers unions influencing virtual schooling more than pandemic science?” – November 21, 2020 – Will Flanders
• The Cap Times | “Will Flanders: If education is changing, so should the funding.” – October 30, 2020 – Will Flanders
• Urban Milwaukee | “Legal Group WILL Opposes Pandemic” – September 18, 2020 – Rick Esenberg, Will Flanders, & Don Daughterty
• RealClearEducation | “The High-Performing School Deserts of Rural America” – Septemeber 4, 2020 – Will Flanders
• The Cap Times | “Will Flanders: Families deserve financial support for at-home schooling.” – July 24, 2020 – Will Flanders
• The Hill | “Whatever their intent, protests aren’t exempt from the laws of nature” – July 11, 2020 – Will Flanders
• Urban Milwaukee | “Extend Act 10 to Cover Police” – June 17, 2020 – Will Flanders & Cori Petersen
• The Cap Times | “Will Flanders and Cori Petersen: Extending Act 10 to police unions could make officers more accountable to the public” – June 14, 2020 – Will Flanders & Cori Petersen
• The Cap Times | “Will Flanders: We can ease the hardships of educating during COVID-19 with smart policy” – May 28, 2020 – Will Flanders

2019

• The 74million | “Analysis: What Wisconsin’s Governor Gets Wrong About How Much Milwaukee’s School Voucher Program Costs — and How Much It’s Helping Students in (and out of) the Classroom” – May 22, 2019 – Will Flanders & Corey A. DeAngelis

2018

• Urban Milwaukee | “More Regulation of School Choice a Mistake” – September 24, 2018 – Will Flanders
• Washington Examiner | “Spending more money on schools doesn’t help students learn” – August 29, 2018 – Will Flanders
• RealClearPolicy | “On Court Pick, Never Trumpers Should Give Trump His Due” – July 8, 2018 – Will Flanders
• RealClearEducation | “The Neglected Challenges of Rural Education” – May 8, 2018 – Will Flanders
• Washington Examiner | “School choice works, but it could work better” – April 18, 2018 – Will Flanders & Cori Petersen
• RealClearEducation | “Education Reform Suffers When Politicians Put Careers Before Kids” – April 10, 2018 – Will Flanders
• NY Daily News | “ The negative effects of Obama’s ‘positive’ school discipline policies” – March 16, 2018 – Will Flanders & Natalie Goodnow
• The Daily Signal | “New Study Finds Some Licensing Laws Do More Harm Than Good” – February 2, 2018 – Will Flanders
• Education Next| “A Story, Not a Study” – February 1, 2018 – Will Flanders & Patrick J. Wolf

2017

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | “Obama school discipline policies hurt Wisconsin kids” – November 27, 2017 – Will Flanders & Natalie Goodnow
• Washington Examiner | “School choice: A path forward out of failure” – November 21, 2017 – Will Flanders
• National Review | “Wisconsin Voter-ID Study Has Statistical Flaws and Mistaken Assumptions” – September 29, 2017 – Rick Esenberg & Will Flanders
• The Cap Times | “Will Flanders: School choice opponents’ arguments against voucher schools ring hollow” – August 22, 2017 – Will Flanders
• Washington Examiner | “Parental choice is kicking bad schools out of school choice programs” – August 16, 2017 – Will Flanders & Morgan Johnson
• National Review | “School Vouchers Are Not a Form of ‘Welfare” – July 25, 2017 – Will Flanders
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | “Flanders, Esenberg: Money isn’t the problem facing Wisconsin schools” – July 21, 2017 – Rick Esenberg & Will Flanders
• The Federalist | “New Research Reverses Negative Findings About Biggest School Voucher Programs” – July 3, 2017 – Will Flanders & Collin Roth
• The Federalist | “Kids In Rural Areas Need School Choice, Too” – May 31, 2017 – Will Flanders & Collin Roth
• Wisconsin State Journal | “Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty: Mark Pocan is flat-out wrong on school choice” – May 30, 2017 – Will Flanders, Libby Sobic, Collin Roth, & CJ Szafir
• The Federalist | “Yes, Scott Walker Did Back Wisconsin’s Economy Away From A Cliff” – May 30, 2017 – Will Flanders & Jake Curtis
• Right Wisconsin | “Celebrating Tommy Thompson and School Choice” – May 24, 2017 – Will Flanders
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | “Flanders, Brannon: Repeal minimum markup law” – May 21, 2017 – Will Flanders
• Right Wisconsin | “NPR’s Claudio Sanchez Teaches Bad Lesson on School Choice” – May 16, 2017 – Will Flanders & CJ Szafir
• Urban Milwaukee | “Rural Areas Need Voucher Schools” – May 4, 2017 – Will Flanders & Collin Roth
• Right Wisconsin | “Five Things Everyone Should Know About the State Budget” – May 2, 2017 – Will Flanders
• Right Wisconsin | “Green Bay Students Would Benefit from Educational Options” – March 22, 2017 – Will Flanders & Collin Roth
• National Review | “New Evidence on School-Choice Successes in Wisconsin” – March 8, 2017 – Will Flanders & Collin Roth
• Right Wisconsin | “Rural Wisconsin Needs School Choice” – February 17, 2017 – Will Flanders
• Right Wisconsin | “Attacks That Opponents of School Choice Will Be Making – Before They Make Them” – February 8, 2017 – Will Flanders, Libby Sobic, & Collin Roth
• Right Wisconsin | “A Debate to Come: Education Funding” – February 6, 2017 – Will Flanders
• Right Wisconsin | “Failure of Federal SIG Program Has Lessons for Wisconsin” – January 26, 2017 – Will Flanders
• Right Wisconsin | “Expanding the School Choice Forward Exam Results” – January 17, 2017 – Will Flanders
• Right Wisconsin | “Overhaul School Funding Formula? Policymakers Should Consider Three Facts First” – January 12, 2017 – Will Flanders
• National Review | “A Word of Caution to the Trump Administration on School Choice” – January 6, 2017 – Will Flanders & Jake Curtis

2024

• Wisconsin State Journal | “Luke Berg fights for conservative values from state’s most liberal city” – April 22, 2024 – Luke Berg

2022

• The Wall Street Journal | “The Pronoun Police Come for Middle Schoolers” – May 23, 2022 – Rick Esenberg & Luke Berg
• Newsweek | “Schools Must Stop Keeping Trans-Secrets From Parents” – March 23, 2022 – Luke Berg & Max Eden
• AEI Report | “How Schools’ Transgender Policies Are Eroding Parents’ Rights” – March 14, 2022 – Luke Berg