A brief history of Wisconsin’s voucher school system: Less effective and more expensive than promised.
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It’s the $700 million answer to the question, “Why are Wisconsin taxpayers seeing a record number of school referendums?”
Voucher-funded schools. The once-small, Milwaukee-only experiment three decades ago is now a program that funds around 400 private, mostly religious schools in a “parental choice” program that has proven to be no better—and in some ways worse—than had those billions of dollars been invested in public schools.