Will Flanders
@WillFlandersWI
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Research Director, @WILawLiberty. I tweet about politics and sports. Views expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of my employer.
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Joined December 2015
Using one-off weather events as evidence of a “climate crisis” is no more convincing than when people use a cold snap as evidence climate change isn’t happening.
The climate crisis is here. This time, it's our community posting the wild videos on social media of flash floods. It's our neighbors lined up outside Home Depot to try and salvage their homes. It's our lives hanging in the balance.
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RT @CoryJBrewer: I wrote an op-ed with @MrDanielBuck about what rights public school teachers have if they don't want to teach objectionabl….
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RT @CyrtHogg: The loudest I have ever heard American Family Field was Sal Frelick’s homer in Game 3. The second-loudest I have ever heard….
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RT @PaulRunko: Meanwhile, the NEA says homeschooling "cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience." .
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RT @JerryPonioWI: It is beyond sad the “education” Governor @GovEvers, DPI Superintendent @DrJillUnderly, and democrats in the legislature….
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RT @DanLennington: ❓What do you call a school where 75-90% of the kids can't read at grade level?. In Wisconsin, we call that "meets expect….
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RT @DanLennington: Dozens of schools "meet" or "exceed" expectations in Wisconsin when 3 out of every 4 students can't read at grade level.….
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RT @yount1130: Friday’s Benjamin Yount Show has us talking about making things in the US, what ‘saving Democracy’ really means, and why the….
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There are 84 schools in WI rated as "Meeting Expectations" or higher w/ ELA proficiency <25%. WILL wrote a letter to DPI demanding they change this absurdity. I'll be discussing w/ @yount1130 coming up later this morning.
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I don’t understand those having sympathy for those w/ massive credit card debt but not those w/ student loan debt. Both are about personal responsibility. But one is about 18 yos trying to better themselves & the other is often about adults who want another purse or golf club.
Credit Card Companies should not be allowed to charge 24% interest rates, it's absurd and borderline criminal. Why does Congress allow this to continue?.
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RT @rpondiscio: New report from yours truly for @AEIeducation with my colleagues Annika Hernandez and @Rifletch on the problem threatening….
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To address the classical teacher pipeline challenge, policymakers should remove credentialing barriers, and schools should expand teacher fellowship programs, recruit from a wider range of colleges...
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RT @HannahDCox: I guess I'm going to have to be the one to break the news to boomers on Twitter. Sorority dance videos didn't go away unde….
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I'll be discussing my recent op-ed w/ @CoryJBrewer on national school choice legislation--and why it should be supported across the political spectrum--coming up in a few mins on Point Taken on @620wtmj .
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Provisions in the 'Big Beautiful Bill Act' created the first-ever federal K–12 tax credit scholarship program but it needs Gov. Tony Evers approval.
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Recent national school choice legislation can benefit kids in traditional public schools as well. Democrats should embrace it as a potential source for supplementary aid to these kids.
Washington Examiner, Democratic group pushes blue-state governors to opt in to school voucher plan':
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.@GovEvers vetoed legislation that would have helped to fix absurd results like this because it would have "undermined the state Superintendent's authority.".
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. This elementary school in Milwaukee "Meets Expectations" according to the state report card. But only FOUR PERCENT of the school's students can read or do math at grade level. What are the expectations?!
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Discussion of our letter to DPI urging the agency to stop whistling past the graveyard when it comes to student proficiency.
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(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is asking the state’s Department of Public Instruction for more transparency in its school report card grading system.
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Good thread explaining the realities of BLS data.
Data revisions are a normal, necessary part of trying to measure a $30 trillion economy in real time. They can also be jarring, especially for people who don't obsessively scrutinize every jobs report. So I dug into the how and why of revisions. A few big takeaways:.
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We hope that the issues raised after the report card debacle will lead DPI to change course on lowering standards, but we won't hold our breath. You can read the full letter here:.
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Click here to visit " WILL Advises DPI to Improve Transparency and Accountability in School Report Card " at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty.
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We offer two solutions to improve the report card: change cut points so that the results are more normal, and make adjustments to mitigate the outsized role income status plays in excusing bad proficiency rates.
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Our current report card system rates 0 school districts in the lowest category--despite proficiency rates of under 25% in reading in many instances. In the figure below, we compare the true report card results with what a normal distribution of results would look like.
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