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Wisconsin Federation for Children is working to expand educational opportunities and ensure that more children have educational choice. Through our efforts we hope to create programs that will ensure all children have the opportunity to be productive citizens in the future, ensure strong and meaningful accountability provisions in all school choice programs so that more parents have access to high-quality educational options for their children, increase the number of public charter schools across the state and public school choice.
School Choice in Wisconsin, by the numbers:
Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Enrollment
Racine Parental Choice Program Enrollment
Wisconsin Parental Choice Program Enrollment
Special Needs Scholarship Program Enrollment
Source: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, “Private School Choice Programs (MPCP, RPCP, WPCP) & Special Needs Scholarship Program (SNSP) Summary”
Updates
Influential Wisconsin Groups Launch Coalition for Educational Freedom
Madison – Wisconsin’s leading education, policy and advocacy organizations announced on Thursday the formation of an unprecedented coalition to empower parents and expand educational opportunities for students. The newly formed Wisconsin Coalition for Education...
Sunday Stories From Denisha
Good morning, The School Choice Boyz, Walter Blanks, Jr., and Nathan Cunneen, spent the last few days in Milwaukee visiting schools and promoting the power of school choice. They had the opportunity to visit Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy for academic signing day...
Marquette University Law School Poll Finds Majority of WI Voters Support School Choice Expansion
Milwaukee, Wisc. April 27, 2022 -- A new Marquette University Law School poll found that 58% of Wisconsin voters support "allowing all students statewide to use publicly funded vouchers to attend private or religious schools if they wish to do so." Despite this...
Sherlean Roberts: Charter schools deserve support, not sabotage
Last month, the Wall Street Journal broke news about new charter school criteria proposed by the Biden administration that would sabotage the $440 million federal Charter Schools Program that assists with front-end costs for new charter schools. Among the most...
Forbes: Doing Your Own Research On School Choice
The idea of people “doing their own research” has become a pandemic-era punchline. Probably everyone reading this saw the reaction to NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers’ decision not to get vaccinated. If you didn’t, here is a representative headline from the Washington Post,...
Families May Like Their School But Want More Options. That’s Where Course Choice Comes In
The debate over school choice has long featured strident rhetoric about union lackeys and privatizers. But now, after millions of students spent a year or more in off-and-on home schooling and makeshift arrangements like learning pods and virtual camps, many...
Eighteen states rip Biden administration’s proposed crackdown on charter schools
Eighteen Republican governors slammed Monday the Biden administration’s effort to restrict federal grants to charter schools, accusing the administration of seeking to position itself as a “national charter school board.” Led by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, the governors...