Tag: Voucher Schools

President Donald Trump has stated time and again that there is no room for Socialism in the United States. And his GOP apologists have continued to trumpet that statement up and down the breadth of the United States. Meanwhile, the rest of us enjoy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Interstate highways,…

Is your school district on this list? Are you aware of these numbers? List is from our email inbox today! In previous communications we warned you that the gerrymandered state legislature set the clock ticking on a Voucher Time Bomb that is inflicting extreme financial hardship on public school districts…

This is being reprinted with permission from Save Our Schools Wauwatosa. It originally appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and OnMilwaukee.com and was written by Mary Young. Most of you know how I feel about public schools and I think this bears reprinting here: There’s a perfect storm heading toward…

Ok…so this is only anecdotal evidence…but I going with it. I had to make an unplanned business trip to Door County Friday night – Saturday. Along HWY 42 just north of the Two Rivers high school is a billboard touting the advantages of the Two Rivers public school system. This…

Republicans really love them some voucher schools. In fact, they love vouchers schools so much they’ve increased voucher school spending seven times faster than public school spending since 2011. Unfortunately, it’s clear a good amount of that extra Republican spending on voucher schools has gone to waste, as the Wisconsin…

This past Sunday weekly Milwaukee Journal Sentinel education columnist Alan Borsuk wrote a great column on the GOPs attempt to require all Wisconsin students to pass a civics test as a requirement for a high school diploma. This new requirement would apply to public, private, charter and voucher schools. It’s…

Another day, another story of a taxpayer-funded voucher school closing its doors in the middle of a school year. A private Milwaukee high school run by a voucher-school operator that’s come under scrutiny this year has been barred from receiving more taxpayer money, state documents show. And now Travis Technology…

Another day, another story of a voucher school’s financial practices and academic performance being called into question. The operator of one of Milwaukee’s longest-running private voucher schools says her organization strives to give disadvantaged children the best shot they can get in life, even when they’ve been left behind by…

Ignoring the rest of the story about being on super secret double probation, here is something totally out of whack at a local private voucher school – this school has just over 600 students – yet the lead administrator has a total compensation package of $218,000: (Dorothy) Travis Moore (founder…

At the behest of the federal Department of Justice who are investigating possible discrimination against students with disabilities, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction requested voluntary information from Wisconsin’s voucher schools. This has voucher proponents and GOP legislators…well…seeing red! …the DPI’s request that was sent to schools last week —…