Recently, Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction released a report on the teacher shortage in the state. The report claims that nearly 40% of teachers leave the profession within the first five years, and blames declines in teacher compensation over the past decade for the shift. While ...
WILL released a statement in support of Act 10, critical collective bargaining reforms that were put in place by Governor Scott Walker in 2011.
Ameillia Wedward and Will Flanders
As Act 10 reaches its second decade, the 2011 collective bargaining reforms continue to prove their value to K-12 education in Wisconsin. But this does not mean that the reforms are no longer controversial, or that opponents of the law have given hope of a ...
Increases in spending, programs, and new attacks on education and worker freedom
The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) policy team is releasing its analysis of Governor Tony Evers’ 2021-23 state budget proposal. The WILL policy brief succinctly summarizes spending ...
WILL continues the fight to protect Walker’s collective bargaining reform law
The News: Today, on behalf of a public school teacher who has refused union membership, attorneys at WILL have filed a motion to intervene in the latest lawsuit over the 2011 collective bargaining reform law (“Act ...
The following blog post was written by WILL Executive Vice President, CJ Szafir, and WILL's Director of Public Engagement, Collin Roth.
It’s no exaggeration to say that Act 10 is the most widely discussed and debated piece of state legislation in a generation. Seven years after the ...