Month: December 2021

Month: December 2021

New Testament Christian Academy STOPs COVID Learning Loss in its Tracks

December 22, 2021

When Wisconsin’s schools were first ordered to shut down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, New Testament Christian Academy Director Renee Johnson says “We prayed.” Little did they know how incredibly their prayers would be answered. New Testament Christian Academy is a private K4-8 school of 157 students with a campus on Bradley Road in Milwaukee. 91.7% of their students attend the Academy through the Parental Choice Program, and 50.3% of their students are considered “economically disadvantaged” by the state. The Academy delivers rigorous, traditional instruction with focuses on critical thinking and STEM fields to prepare students for their future…

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Those Who RISE to the Challenge

December 21, 2021

The coronavirus was brand new and spreading fast on March 18, 2020. On that day, out of an abundance of caution, Governor Tony Evers ordered all Wisconsin schools closed until April 6, 2020. What was meant to only last a few weeks continued to keep many Wisconsin schools closed to in-person education for over a year. Nearly every school experienced disruption to their curriculum over almost two years of pandemic mitigation. For a state with already low proficiency rates, the disruption is devastating. In the 2018-19 school year, before the pandemic, 40.8% of Wisconsin students were proficient in reading and…

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School Choice WI Thanks Rep. Thiesfeldt for Years of Service to Education

December 10, 2021

Contact: Jim Bender, School Choice Wisconsin [email protected] 414.319.9160   Brookfield, WI – Upon the announcement that Representative Thiesfeldt will not run for reelection, School Choice Wisconsin thanks him for his years of public service and dedication to education in Wisconsin. As chairman of the Assembly Education Committee his guidance and assistance has been invaluable to lives of thousands of students across Wisconsin. In particular, his support for the Parental Choice Programs helped transform the landscape of education reform. When first elected, there was a single program in Milwaukee with roughly 100 schools and 21,000 students. Today, there are four programs,…

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