By: Shannon Whitworth
The state of our schools today, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, has a lot of people concerned. With kids out of school for so long, it is no wonder that proficiency rates in key academic areas are declining. In fact, a study out earlier this month from the ...
Study finds academic performance drops in math and English for schools that started 2020-21 school year closed.
The News: A new study from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) finds that Wisconsin schools that closed for in-person learning to start the 2020-21 school year saw ...
Will Flanders and Libby Sobic
In the latest chapter of the seemingly never-ending nightmare of school closures, Milwaukee Public Schools decided Sunday, Jan. 2 to return to virtual instruction for the first week of the spring semester, Jan. 3-7. This follows the Madison Metropolitan School ...
WILL is challenging authority of health officer to issue orders without legislative approval
The News: The Wisconsin Supreme Court granted a motion to bypass in Becker v. Dane County, meaning the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear and decide the case brought by two Dane County residents and a ...
Will Flanders, Research Director
Recently, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) approved Wisconsin’s plan for more than $1.5 billion in federal funds under the COVID-relief package ESSER 3, with one crucial exception: $77 million that was to go to schools that offered more in-person ...
New WILL policy brief offers three ways to immediately improve the report card
The News: The recent release of Wisconsin’s state report cards for individual districts and schools proved, once again, that the current composition of the report card is not doing enough to reveal the true state of ...