Join WILL in celebrating National Charter School Week 2021 with a conversation about public charter schools in Wisconsin. Libby Sobic will discuss the past, present and future of public charter schools with Vanessa Moran, the director of the Office of Educational Opportunity with the UW ...
By: Will Flanders and Libby Sobic
For many years, Wisconsin has reserved the position of state superintendent of schools for someone steeped in union politics and promising the status quo. But over the past year, COVID-19 has turned many such situations on their heads and polarized politics ...
Proposal threatens to end school choice as Wisconsin knows it
The News: This morning, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Governor Tony Evers will propose freezing enrollment in Wisconsin’s parental choice programs and curtailing the expansion of independent public charter schools in ...
81,000 students in Wisconsin benefit from school choice
The News: January 20-26 marks National School Choice Week, a week-long celebration of the progress made across the country in providing parents with education options. WILL is celebrating National School Choice Week by releasing a short ...
Data from the newly released state report card reveals that more charter schools and private schools in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) are meeting or exceeding expectations than Milwaukee Public Schools. More than 80% of Independent Charters, more than 75% of MPS instrumentality ...
WILL's Executive Vice President, CJ Szafir and Researcher Cori Petersen write at the Wall Street Journal about how Milwaukee Public Schools refuse to sell vacant schools to Milwaukee's charter schools.
St. Marcus then tried to purchase the vacant Lee School for the appraised value plus ...