Politicians at every level must listen to their voters; but to get reelected, elected leaders think that they must make trade-offs between the desires of parents and wants of educators in their community. Political donations are an important measure of political engagement, ideology, and interest. WILL’s report found that the vast majority of donors who identified themselves as teachers have contributed to Democratic candidates and Democratic-affiliated organizations.
WILL-supported legislation would have required districts to post classroom material online
The News: Governor Tony Evers vetoed curriculum transparency legislation (SB 463/ AB 488), Friday, denying parents access to the classroom materials in our public schools. The Wisconsin Institute for Law ...
Will Flanders, Research Director
The Assembly and Senate passed a common-sense reform to make data on school-level spending available to the public in a user-friendly, online portal. Assembly Bill 387/Senate Bill 373 received bi-partisan support in the Assembly, along with the endorsement ...
By: Miranda Spindt
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is taking the country’s public schools by storm and was at the forefront of a joint Education Committee hearing in Wisconsin on August 11. A bill that would require school boards to make curriculum accessible to the public was accompanied by ...
Dan Lennington, Deputy Counsel
The battle over critical race theory (CRT) and related concepts is escalating in school districts across the country. Too many times, however, parents become frustrated with school officials who quibble over the definition of CRT or flat-out deny that CRT is ...
