The City of Milwaukee is failing to follow state law, state must intervene (again) Milwaukee, WI – A new WILL report explains how the City of Milwaukee is failing to follow state law, preserving the never-ending vacant school building crisis. In total, Milwaukee has at least 15 empty school buildings and taxpayers have spent over…

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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 public, charter, and private schools has been muddied by insufficient data and inappropriate apples-to-oranges comparisons. Not anymore. A new WILL study, for the first time using…

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Milwaukee, WI – The Journal of School Choice, an academic journal dedicated to empirical research on school choice, published a recent Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty study by Will Flanders, PhD, on student outcomes per taxpayer dollars spent at public schools in Milwaukee, including charters. You can read the study here. This first-of-its-kind study…

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Most comprehensive study to date of effect of historic reforms on classrooms, teachers June 21, 2016 – Milwaukee, WI – The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty has released a new report that studies how Act 10 has impacted the new marketplace for teachers in Wisconsin after five years of implementation. The study is the…

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Independent, non-instrumentality charters are doing more with much less May 19, 2016 – Milwaukee, WI – Dr. Will Flanders and CJ Szafir at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) coauthored a new report, “Bang for the Buck,” that analyzes which public schools* in Milwaukee produce the best outcomes per tax dollars spent. By…

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