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How Parents Beat the Left on School Choice in Wisconsin
26Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

How Parents Beat the Left on School Choice in Wisconsin

Despite having a new liberal majority, the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused this month to hear a challenge to the state’s school-choice programs. The lawsuit, supported by the Minocqua Brewing Co.’s progressive super PAC, would have deprived more than 60,000 students of funding. The episode carries a lesson for advocates of education freedom.The lawsuit challenged Wisconsin’s taxpayer-funded voucher programs. While teachers unions hailed it, Democratic politicians refused to endorse it. Gov. Tony Evers’s administration filed a brief asking the court to reject the case. The Legislature’s Democratic leaders kept silent. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, running for re-election in 2024, appears not to have said a word.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5e...
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School Choice Dies in Illinois
12Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

School Choice Dies in Illinois

Sometimes the worst political scandals occur in plain sight, even if most of the press corps chooses not to notice. That’s what happened last week in Illinois, where the Democratic-union machine killed scholarships for 9,600 low-income children. The state and national teachers union made a priority of blocking an extension of the Invest in Kids program that provided a 75% state tax credit for donations to help families afford private schools. The unions claim the credit drained money from public schools, but public funding has increased nearly $2 billion since Invest in Kids began under former Gov. Bruce Rauner. Only 35% of Illinois children read at grade level, according to Wirepoints, so no wonder there are more than 20,000 children on the Invest in Kids waiting list. Copyright ©2023 Do...
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Pennsylvania Republicans Get Played and Betrayed on School Choice – RedState
6Jul By adminNo Comments
Politics

Pennsylvania Republicans Get Played and Betrayed on School Choice – RedState

Pennsylvania continues to be a place of nightmares for Republicans. Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro, who ran in 2022 on being a strong supporter of school choice (an oddity in his party), has done an about-face and will now line-item veto the necessary funding to provide vouchers. That represents a capitulation to the teacher’s unions that lobbied the governor’s office. In all, $100 million will now be denied, locking students in failing schools. Democrat in the State House had previously demanded $750 million more in funding for public schools as a counter to the school voucher program. Senate Republicans in the state put out the following statement in response. Statement from Pennsylvania Senate Republicans: "We negotiated in good faith and were eager to stand with Governor Shapiro on on...
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