Welcome to the Milwaukee Debate League
The Milwaukee Debate League (MDL) is an organization that works in partnership with the Milwaukee Area Schools ( to support academic debate teams in local high schools. MDL is an emerging program that is evolving from an organization that changes the lives of a few individual students to one that transforms the academic culture of the schools we serve. Our focus over the next three years is to go deep in existing member schools, building large debate teams and supporting teachers as they use debate to transform the academic atmosphere and expectations in their school.