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• 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

• 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

• 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