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Pro-Voucher Study Contends Vouchers Benefit Public Schools
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 1, 2014
Milwaukee’s long-running school voucher program that allows certain children to attend private and religious schools at taxpayer expense has saved Wisconsin more than $238 million since its inception in 1990, according to a new study by a national voucher advocacy group.
That’s not a surprisingfinding — vouchers are generally lower in cost than public school education.
But the study’s more provocative point is that the savings from those voucher programs in Milwaukee and other cities are passively plowed back into public schools or other public programs.
Critics pounced on the reasoning.
Read more of this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article.
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