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Wisconsin School Closures Hurt Districts with Many Low-Income, African American Students

A new WILL study finds that Wisconsin schools that closed for in-person learning to start the 2020-21 school year saw significant performance declines in math and reading. These Wisconsin school closures, impacting more than 250,000 students, occurred in districts with large numbers of African American and low-income students.

📖 English/Language Arts proficiency was 1.6% lower in districts that were closed for in-person learning in fall 2020.

🔢 Math proficiency was approximately 4.8% lower in districts that were closed for in-person learning in fall 2020.

WILL Supports Election Integrity Bills

WILL Policy Director, Kyle Koenen, testified and registered in favor of a group of election integrity and reform bills under consideration before the Senate Elections Committee. Many of the policy reforms reflect recommendations from WILL’s “Review of the 2020 Election,” published in December 2021. WILL’s election review was recently heralded as the “best summary of the 2020 election” by the Wall Street Journal editorial board.

📄 Read WILL's 2020 Election Review here.

OPINION: How Much Did Mark Zuckerberg’s Money Shift Wisconsin Votes For Biden?

Rick Esenberg and Will Flanders respond to criticism leveled against WILL's recent analysis of the impact of the Mark Zuckerberg-funded CTCL grants on the 2020 election in Wisconsin.

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