Home : Attack on School Choice in Milwaukee Spurs Local and National Backlash
There has been a flurry of national and local press activity in recent days regarding the Wisconsin state budget and the future of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program:
- The Wall Street Journal editorialized against measures aimed "to reduce funding" and "to regulate the program to death."
- The National Review Online denounced measures that would "leave parents, once again, without a choice."
- Former Milwaukee mayor John Norquist and his wife Susan Mudd wrote in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that "School choice has strengthened Milwaukee."
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Patrick McIlheran writes about the "harm punitive mandates will inflict."
- Milwaukee talk show host Charlie Sykes discussed the impact of a bilingual mandate on schools.
date posted 6/8/2009
