Wisconsin’s private school choice program has expanded massively over the last three decades. Starting in Milwaukee in 1990, taxpayers covered just 300 students’ tuition for a total of 700,000 dollars. That spending has ballooned to 700 million dollars this year, Wisconsin Watch finds in a new report, with nearly half of the state’s private school students receiving a voucher last year.
For an in-depth look at Wisconsin’s educational landscape, our News Producer Faye Parks sat down with data investigative reporter Hongyu Liu.
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