{"id":15656,"date":"2025-03-06T18:51:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15656"},"modified":"2025-03-06T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:55:51","slug":"court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-could-undermine-act-10s-public-education-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15656","title":{"rendered":"Court Watch: Wisconsin Supreme Court Could Undermine Act 10\u2019s Public Education Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-could-undermine-act-10-public-education-success\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-could-undermine-act-10-public-education-success\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IRG-Court-Watch-Act-10-Education.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7090 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IRG-Court-Watch-Act-10-Education-1-232x300-1.png\" alt width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><b>Delafield, Wis.<\/b><span> \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) released another <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IRG-Court-Watch-Act-10-Education.pdf\"><span>\u201cCourt Watch\u201d primer<\/span><\/a><span> on Thursday detailing how Act 10 helped local school boards transform schools and rewarded high-performing teachers. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IRG-Court-Watch-Act-10-Education.pdf\"><span>primer<\/span><\/a><span> outlines the devastating effects that overturning Act 10 would have on Wisconsin Public Schools. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WHY IT MATTERS:<\/b><span> Act 10 helped schools put more money into the classroom and rewarded the highest-performing teachers. The breathing room and financial flexibility districts now have is directly attributable to Act 10. <\/span><span>Savings can now go into classrooms, to special-needs services, or to hire teachers rather than to unsustainably high fringe benefits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>THE QUOTE:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cThe Wisconsin Supreme Court could overturn a decade of progress in public education with a single decision overturning Act 10, which would handcuff locally elected school boards from managing their schools,\u201d <\/b><span>said Jake Curtis, General Counsel and Director of IRG\u2019s CIO. <\/span><b>\u201cOverturning Act 10 would bring Wisconsin students backward in a time when our students are struggling.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT\u2019S NEXT: <\/b><span>State courts impact everyday Wisconsinites\u2019 lives and IRG\u2019s new Court Watch initiative will lead in educating on the importance of the judicial branch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IRG-Court-Watch-Act-10-Education.pdf\"><b>Read the primer here. <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-could-undermine-act-10-public-education-success\/ Delafield, Wis. \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":15658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15659,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions\/15659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}