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Governor Evers Can Do More to Alleviate School Closures

Will Flanders and Libby Sobic In the latest chapter of the seemingly never-ending nightmare of school closures, Milwaukee Public Schools decided Sunday, ...

Inflation: This Year’s Unwanted Christmas Gift

Noah Diekemper Since the beginning of the pandemic, the federal government has flooded massive amounts of money into the economy. From the CARES Act, to ...

MPS Misleads Taxpayers With Property Tax Card

Will Flanders and Libby Sobic Like an old IPod set on repeat, Milwaukee Public Schools' attempts to attack and provide misleading data about the Milwaukee ...

Federal Court of Appeals Rules DPI Violated State Law When Denying Transportation Benefits to Private School Families

WILL filed case in 2016 on behalf of Washington County independent Catholic school, parents The News: A three-judge panel of the federal Seventh Circuit ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court to Hear WILL Challenge to Dane County Health Orders

WILL is challenging authority of health officer to issue orders without legislative approval The News: The Wisconsin Supreme Court granted a motion to ...

SCHOOL CHOICE

Wisconsin is home to the oldest private school voucher program in the entire country. What began in Milwaukee now serves low income and special needs children throughout the state. WILL has always prioritized school choice and will continue to provide legal services and high-quality research on Wisconin’s private school choice programs.

What to Know About the Next Big Supreme Court School Choice Case

Libby Sobic and Anthony LoCoco The U.S. Supreme Court recently held oral arguments in Carson v. Makin, a case that challenges Maine’s decision to prevent ...

Feds Handcuff Wisconsin From Rewarding In-Person Instruction

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 ...