A Wisconsin Democrat is asking the state Supreme Court’s new liberal majority to eliminate funding for the state’s four taxpayer-funded school voucher programs and independent charter schools while also lifting state-imposed limits on the amount of funding public schools can receive without a referendum.
If successful, the lawsuit would upend the state’s K-12 education landscape by effectively eliminating the school voucher programs, one of which is more than 30 years old and used by nearly 30,000 children in Milwaukee.
Private school voucher programs provide participating schools with a taxpayer-funded voucher to pay for the tuition for each student who is eligible to enroll in the program. The students are typically from lower- and middle-income families.
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