According to The Wall Street Journal, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program currently provides vouchers to roughly 20,000 low-income students in order for them to attend better-performing schools -- public or private. The extremely popular program has been in existence for 20 years, but now -- thanks to Democratic lawmakers in the state -- the program is in jeopardy.
Lawmakers recently voted to cut payments to private schools by over $150 per student and increase public school funding by $400 per student.
The Wall Street Journal also reports that taxpayer funding for the low-income minority students that attend private school through the voucher program is less than half the cost taxpayers spend on public school.
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