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New DPI Data Shows Choice Students Outscore Public School Peers on Standardized Tests
October 10, 2023 (WEST ALLIS) — Students in Wisconsin’s parental choice programs outperformed public school students across a range of test results released by DPI today. Families who participate in the parental choice programs must be at or below the following federal poverty percentages when they apply: 300% (MPCP and RPCP) and 220% (WPCP). These…
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New SCW Report Highlights Schools’ Work with Students with Disabilities
WEST ALLIS — School Choice Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty (WILL) today released a new report that shines new light on the amount of special needs students in Wisconsin’s choice schools serve students with disabilities. The report, Serving All: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs, demonstrates that contrary to…
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The School Choice Advantage: More Bang For The Buck
Data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction enable a comparison of public and private school cost-effectiveness. The results are described in a new School Choice Wisconsin report. Using conservative assumptions, the report shows a marked advantage for schools in the state’s private school choice programs. The advantage is most pronounced in Milwaukee and Racine.…
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WI School Choice Statewide Survey 8-22
View the latest polling research from On Message Inc. (OMI): WI School Choice Statewide Survey 8-22
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Milwaukee School Choice Research Chosen Best Academic Article of 2021
Participation in the MPCP Lowers Criminal Convictions for the Most At-Risk The Journal of Private Enterprise recently named “Private School Choice and Character: More Evidence from Milwaukee” as the best academic article of 2021 in their publication. The paper by Patrick J. Wolf, Ph.D., and Corey A. DeAngelis, Ph.D., examined the effects of Milwaukee’s school…
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A Wise Investment – Choice and Charter Dollars Generate Higher Report Card Scores
With State Budget Decisions Near, Study Shows ROI in Education is Clear A new study by Corey DeAngelis of the Reason Foundation calculates the productivity of public dollars for three education sectors in Wisconsin. By comparing local and state investments in the traditional public schools, independent charter schools and private schools in the Parental Choice…
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Accountability in Action-August 2017
In this report, School Choice Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty explore the impact of fiscal accountability and parental choice on the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. “The debate over private school vouchers has shifted away from their mere existence towards whether – and how – accountability provisions should impact the ability of…
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Current Testing Used by Certain Choice Schools
School Choice Wisconsin surveyed schools to find out what standardized tests they would prefer to use in the future. A total of 27 schools responded to School Choice Wisconsin’s survey, seven in Racine out of twenty schools in the program for 2015-2016 (35%) and twenty-one in the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (WPCP) out of 72…
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Districts Receive Undue Dollars With New Voucher Model
Starting in 2015-16, new RPCP and WPCP students’ vouchers will be funded similar to the open enrollment. While this ensures there is no voucher amount reduction, public districts unfairly receive a subsidy for students they do not educate due to revenue limit counting purposes. Below are some models showing how much “skim” would go to…
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Comparing RPCP and RUSD WKCE Results
Each year, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) collects WKCE results from all public schools[1] as well as all choice pupils[2] at private schools and publishes them on WISEdash. Usually DPI attempts to skew the data in order to favor public schools. However, the aggregate results from the choice schools were too high to make…
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