Issue Outline

Ashley Russell
What is your Vouchers and how they affect the Public Schools
issue?

Who does your Public schools

issue involve? Teachers
Private schools
Students
Parents
Taxpayers
How is your Millions of dollars are being drained from the public schools and going to
issue impacting vouchers (In Milwaukee alone $66 million in a year)
education today?
Reduced opportunities for students in public school

Class sizes have increased

Art, PE, Music being cut from public schools

When aid is deducted from schools to pay for the vouchers, the district has
the choice of accepting the loss and cutting programs and staff or raising
property taxes

Public schools are forced to reach out to community for services to provide
their students due to lack of funding

Students transferring to voucher schools did not see academic gains like
their matched peers they left in public school

On average, private schools offer 65.5 minutes less per week in reading
instruction and 48.3 minutes less per week in math instruction
Why is your Private schools aren’t required to teach all students equally. Students with
issue special needs or behavior issues are counseled out of voucher schools,
controversial? even after the school has received the money.

Some of our Public school resources are being spilt/utilized in private

schools as well.

The revenue associated with voucher students often falls short and school
districts are turning to taxpayers to help fill the gaps
 I have first hand (in my district) heard of a private school principal
recommending to his families that the parents should enroll their children
in public school for 2 days in order to get their tuition paid in full (a loop
hole) *so we had some teachers that got supplies ready for a new student
that was only there for a total of two days. Also hear-say, but the family
received the money to pay the school, it didn’t go directly to the private
school
List three articles Stop the Expansion of Vouchers and Charter Schools
you read about http://weac.org/vouchers/ http://weac.org/wp-
your issue. content/uploads/2017/09/WEAC-
NEA_Voucher_One_Pager_DONT_BE_FOOLED.pdf

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2019/10/15/cost-
wisconsin-voucher-programs-nears-350-million/3985789002/

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-
12/reports/2018/03/20/446699/highly-negative-impacts-vouchers/

Identify an Center for American Progress views vouchers as harmful to student

organization and achievement because they are offering less instructional minutes in reading
tell their view and math
about the issue.