by George Mitchell | Nov 17, 2019 | Features
Add this to the trove of largely unreported news about Milwaukee’s private voucher schools and the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS): In the last three years, the percent of voucher students attending schools ranked highest by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI)...
by Will Flanders | Oct 16, 2019 | Features, Special to RightWisconsin
This week, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is out with another sensationalist headline about the ostensible cost to Wisconsin of the state’s voucher programs. And, as is often the case with such stories, important information is left out or dismissed in a story...
by Benjamin Yount | Oct 16, 2019 | Features
More students across Wisconsin are leaving traditional public schools. A new enrollment report from the Department of Public Instruction shows almost 44,000 students attend a non-traditional school paid for by public dollars. That’s a nearly nine percent...
by George Mitchell | Sep 15, 2019 | Features
The state released test score data last week for students in public schools and private voucher schools. Here are a few facts readers of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel are unfamiliar with: Depending on the type of test, there are 30 different ways to compare public...
by Will Flanders | Jul 22, 2019 | Features
Despite the efforts of Governor Tony Evers and Wisconsin Democrats to end school choice, the evidence continues to build on the positive effects of the program. The most recent evidence in a new study from the Urban Institute is arguably some of the most important so...
