Up to $800 million could be spent over the next 10 years to expand the taxpayer-funded statewide school voucher program as proposed by GOP lawmakers, according to a new legislative memo.
SCHOOL VOUCHERS
Memo: 10-year voucher expansion could shift up to $800M from school districts
Lighthouse Christian School student Samuel Delgado walks a hallway during a break in classes. The small private school in Madison accepts taxpayer-funded vouchers from some students for tuition.
Independent charter schools could be created in Milwaukee and Madison under the proposal.
They include subjecting low-performing large school districts to a state-imposed reorganization, lifting the cap on school vouchers and changi…
It also would require public school students to pass a civics test to graduate high school, let them attend schools in other states and let hi…
