WI: Better choice? Study shows stronger performance in choice schools

By   /  August 30, 2012  /  Children, Education, News, Wisconsin  /  No Comments

Milwaukee School Choice program achieving higher test scores than public schools, study finds.

Part 1 of 2 in the series School Choice

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — A legislative study confirmed what Adam Smith posited some 200 years ago: Competition in the marketplace leads to improved results — even in education.
From the 2006 to 2010 school year, students increased their test scores in Milwaukee Parental Choice Schools and Milwaukee [...]

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WI: Advocate has ‘choice’ words for newspaper’s omission

By   /  September 5, 2012  /  Education, News, Wisconsin  /  No Comments

Stronger performance of choice schools omitted or downplayed in Milwaukee Journal story.

Part 2 of 2 in the series School Choice

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – The leader of a school choice advocacy group is questioning whether a story in the state’s largest newspaper deliberately chose not to include key information on academic testing or whether it was a sin of omission.
Last week, the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau [...]

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