In the last three years, the percent of voucher students attending schools ranked highest by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has nearly tripled. During the same period the share of MPS students at similar schools has barely grown.
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Thiesfeldt said Wisconsin taxpayers are spending more than ever on public schools, and getting sub-par results.
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For a fraction of the public school costs, voucher students on average out-perform most public school students.
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Evers is proposing that private schools must complete all the steps of accreditation prior to participating in the choice programs. This change creates a catch 22 for new schools – the school could not accept students on a voucher until they completed the entire accreditation process but they cannot complete accreditation without students in the building.
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Online public charter school advocates are joining with private school voucher advocates to oppose Governor Tony Evers’ proposed caps on charter schools and parental choice programs.
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The lawsuit contends that DPI does not have the authority to make the decision to allow online education to be used for public schools, but not private schools, to make up lost instruction hours without going through the rule-making process for state agencies complete with legislative review.
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“Instead of working with the legislature to help high-performing schools expand, Governor Evers has doubled down on politics, siding with special interests over children,” said Szafir.
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What’s happening politically is that a statewide base of support is growing. Increasingly, choice will be less of a Milwaukee/Racine issue and more of a Wisconsin issue.
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The data release showed that students in the parental choice programs outperformed their public school peers on the ACT for the third year in a row.
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From a research and policy point of view, the WSJ analysis is very frustrating. It fails to mention some of the most comprehensive and recent studies which show the benefits of a voucher. And the key finding of the “analysis” is neither useful nor accurate.
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