Stories

Stories

School Choice programs have helped thousands of students throughout Wisconsin thrive because of the educational options available to them. Choice schools and educators take extraordinary steps to ensure their students are educated to the fullest. See below to read real stories about students, teachers, school leaders, and parents in Wisconsin.

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Stephany At Shoreland Lutheran

February 25, 2021

Rosa Gonzalez shakes her head as she remembers where her daughter was just three years ago. “When Stephany was in ninth grade at the local high school, it was too bad,” she says, adding that she didn’t seem to have control over her daughter, who was disengaged from school, skipping classes and hanging around with…

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Nicole at Shoreland Lutheran High School

February 19, 2021

Perhaps Nicole Romero’s greatest attribute would be the one that makes it easy to overlook her. She is silently resolved. The junior at Shoreland Lutheran High School does what she is supposed to do. She works hard, she encourages others through her actions rather than words and is a relatively quiet teenager. For those reasons,…

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Choice Stories: Meet Tori Jaeger

January 10, 2021

After more than three decades of school choice in Wisconsin, choice stories are everywhere. The Jaeger family has one of them. For over 30 years, The Jaeger family has found a wellspring of community and opportunity at Trinity Freistadt in Mequon, WI. Their children attend the school which is connected to a ministry with a…

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Joquori At St. Marcus Lutheran School

January 9, 2021

A grandfather struggles to escape a robbery and is shot dead on the porch while his helpless grandchild, still growing in the womb, restlessly waits to emerge into a sometimes violent and hopeless world. Joquori Brown’s life began as that child with a beautiful defiance. Defiance against poverty that surrounded him as one of eight…

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