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, 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 ...
Will Flanders, Research Director
Wisconsin’s recently released state report cards for the 2020-21 school year paint a relatively rosy picture: 399 (out of 422) districts “Met”, “Exceeded”, or “Greatly Exceeded” expectations according to the data. But these report cards seem to be whistling ...
WILL examines missing data to project true proficiency rates of “lost kids”
The News: A new policy brief from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) finds that the large number of students who didn’t take the 2020-21 Forward Exam may have pushed the already low proficiency rates ...
By: Jessica Holmberg
Gov. Evers recently signed two bills that increase public school choice in Wisconsin. SB 109 and SB 110 specifically aim to remove barriers to accessing Wisconsin’s largest school choice option, the Open Enrollment Program, by expanding access to virtual schools. The ...