Wisconsin Teacher in WSJ: "Education Schools Have Long Been Mediocre. Now They’re Woke Too"

Daniel Buck, a Wisconsin teacher and editor of the Chalkboard Review, was published in the Wall Street Journal this weekend highlighting the problem of college-level indoctrination of prospective K-12 teachers. Buck uses his own experience at UW-Madison as well as information from WILL’s recent report, From the Top: The Impact of College-Level Indoctrination on K-12 Education, by Will Flanders and Dylan Palmer.

🗯 "The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has reviewed the required coursework for 14 programs for teachers-to-be in the Badger State. These programs produce about 80% of all teaching graduates in the state each year. What they found was shocking." 

📖 Read the full report here. 

NEW PUBLICATION | Empower School Board Members With Policy Solutions

WILL Director of Education Policy, Libby Sobic, is the author of Empower School Board Members With Policy Solutions: a new publication from the American Enterprise Institute. The rising tide of parent engagement and activism requires policy thinkers to turn their attention to the local level where school boards can debate and pass reforms that directly impact the classroom and address controversies around curriculum transparency and parental notification. 

📝 Learn more about the Model School Board Policies here.

WILL Warns Proposed La Crosse Ordinance Violates First Amendment 

WILL attorneys issued a public letter to the La Crosse Common Council warning that a recently passed city ordinance violates free speech, religious liberty, and parental rights guarantees in the state and federal constitutions. The City of La Crosse is currently reconsidering the recently adopted Ordinance No. 5220, which bans a significant amount of speech on issues of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. WILL’s letter explains why the prohibitions in the ordinance unconstitutionally restrict the scope of speech from clergy, parents, or licensed mental-health counselors, are impermissibly vague, and are preempted by state law.

🗯 WILL Deputy Counsel, Anthony LoCoco, said, "La Crosse’s ordinance threatens parents, ministers, and counselors, among others, with punishment if they share sincerely-held views on issues of sex and gender with children in their care. It is black-letter law that the government has no right to simply penalize speech with which it disagrees. La Crosse needs to rethink its actions.”

TUESDAY VIRTUAL EVENT | Race Discrimination in the American Rescue Plan

Last year, WILL filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the unconstitutional race discrimination in the American Rescue Plan’s provision to offer loan forgiveness based on racial categories. Join WILL President and General Counsel, Rick Esenberg, for this informative legal webinar with The Federalist Society on Tuesday August 23, at 1 pm CDT.

⚖️ Learn more about WILL's Equality Under the Law Project here.