New legal complaint urges DPI to suspend state payments to schools not in compliance
Equality For All
Action Plan for Stronger Public Schools and Tougher Voucher School Standards Unveiled for Milwaukee
National, statewide and local public school advocates today unveiled a 12-point action plan to stop the draining of funds from Milwaukee's public schools, protect the rights of children in all taxpayer funded schools, and make voucher schools accountable to the public.
Supreme Court Sets Stage for More Confusion Over Vouchers
Today's announcement by the U.S. Supreme Court that it will not hear Milwaukee parents' challenge to their state's use of public money for religious schools leaves Wisconsin out of step with the nation, the U.S. Constitution, and a previous landmark Supreme Court ruling. It is likely to embolden voucher supporters who will exploit the confusion the Court has created to step up pressure for similar voucher legislation in other states.
School Voucher Controversy Escalates as National African American Leaders Coalesce Around Issue
CBC members decry campaign to promote vouchers to minority and disadvantaged groups
As Congress prepares to take up education as one of its priorities, members of the Congressional Black Caucus have joined forces with the national African American Ministers Leadership Council, the NAACP and the People For the American Way Foundation to make clear to conservatives who are aggressively pushing voucher legislation that their proposals would hurt most minority and disadvantaged children.
Milwaukee's Vouchers Leave Public Schools More Than $29 Million Short
HARD DECISIONS AHEAD FOR SCHOOL OFFICIALS
Today as Milwaukee begins the new school year, the city's public schools are faced with a looming financial crisis brought on by the diversion of millions of dollars from the public schools' operating funds to pay the cost of vouchers for private and religious schools.
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