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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 [...]

Report casts doubt on link between academic outcomes and spending   August 7, 2018 – Milwaukee, WI – With campaigns in full swing, candidates are frantically trying to outdo each [...]

WILL’s CJ Szafir and Cori Petersen write at RealClearEducation on school choice and education reformers need to better target and message their advocacy to win converts and inform the [...]

Today, Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post released an “analysis” that purports to show the harm that Governor Scott Walker has caused to public schools throughout his tenure as Governor.   [...]

Writing at RealClearEducation, WILL Research Director Will Flanders notes that: [T]here is quiet crisis taking place in rural schools across America in a neglected corner far from the debates [...]

New peer-reviewed study ranks every K-12 school in Wisconsin April 17, 2018 – Milwaukee, WI – The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) released its second annual report [...]

Study with Cato’s DeAngelis shows economic benefit of ESAs amidst debate over major MS ESA February 8, 2018 – Milwaukee, WI – The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, in conjunction with the [...]

Wisconsin Public Radio covered our most recent report, Apples to Apples, which looked at test scores at various types of schools and how they performed relative to one another. Our study showed [...]

The most comprehensive look at test scores since the School Choice Demonstration Project   March 1, 2017 – Milwaukee, WI –  For too long, the debate over student achievement in [...]

  This is the second in a series of blogs over the coming weeks that will investigate ways for improving Milwaukee’s failing education system.  Previously, we examine the concept of [...]