Dan O’Donnell examines the impact of Governor Evers’ budget on Wisconsin’s landmark school choice program. Read More Disadvantaged and Minority Students the Biggest Losers in Evers’ Budget
MacIver News Service – New test results from the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) show that students in school choice programs outperformed their peers in public schools in almost every category. When comparing students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, Racine Parental Choice Program, and Wisconsin Parental Choice Program to their public school counterparts, choice participants outperformed economically disadvantaged public school students in every category. Read More New Test Results: School Choice Students Outperform Public School Peers
A recent Huffington Post article took the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) to task for how some MPCP students with special needs are being treated in their schools. MacIver’s Christian D’Andrea responds to their factual inaccuracies in the following column, which was originally published by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. Read More You Can Disparage School Choice – As Long as You Ignore Facts, Thousands of Kids
It is appalling that MPS would go this far to keep school choice from expanding in Milwaukee. This shady deal shows that the state’s largest school district cannot be a good steward of taxpayer money. The Milwaukee Common Council cannot, in good faith, approve this sale. Let’s hope Mayor Barrett and Common Council President Willie Hines act like grown-ups and tell MPS no. Read More MPS Should be Ashamed of the Malcolm X Boondoggle
The Journal Sentinel editorial board recently quoted the Department of Public Instruction Superintendent as saying, “The state cannot continue to play favorites. We can and must meet our constitutional obligation to invest in all of our kids.” The superintendent errs, however, when he suggests that private schools that serve choice students are the ones that have somehow been shown preferential treatment over the years. This op-ed discusses the real facts about school choice. Read More Choice Schools Association Responds to Journal Sentinel Editorial