Equality For All

PFAWF Asks State Court To Overturn New Law

PFAW Cites Mounting Problems with Voucher Programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland, Recommends Support of Proven Education Reforms

Children's Scholarship Fund Head Urged to Target Aid to Public Schools

New legal complaint urges DPI to suspend state payments to schools not in compliance

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.

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.

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.