Rand Paul says he would lift income caps on voucher schools
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Sen. Rand Paul takes part in a panel discussion on school choice at Shining Star Christian School in Millwaukee, which is new to the Parental Choice Program. Donald Harris (right), student body president of Wisconsin Lutheran High School and a voucher participant, also took part in the forum.
By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel
Nov. 10, 2015 1:05 p.m.
Kentucky senator and presidential hopeful Rand Paul would lift the income caps on school voucher programs to allow all students access to private schools, and expand online courses at all levels as a way to make education more affordable, Paul told a standing-room-only crowd Tuesday at a school choice round-table in Milwaukee.
"There is a revolution that is going to occur in education.... And that revolution is the Internet," said Paul, who envisions having schools contract with private companies that provide high-quality instruction online and suggests the current educational establishment is hindering such innovation.
"We need to break up the education monopoly and let the market work and bring prices down," he said.
Paul, who shared the dais at Shining Star Christian School with other school choice advocates, is in Milwaukee for the GOP debate on Tuesday.
Asked what he hoped for out of the debate, he drew a laugh when he answered that he hoped "after this the rest of them might drop out."...............
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With Gov Walker already stomping on public schools in WI and stopping unions, we have witnessed deteriorating schools in WI. This is another area that the Dems need to stop in 2016!!
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About voucher schools
Voucher schools are private schools that receive taxpayer money in the form of tuition payments for qualifying students. All voucher schools are private schools, and most teach religion. As of the 2014-’15 school year, 26,930 students in Milwaukee were using vouchers to attend one of 113 private schools.
The Milwaukee voucher program, officially known as the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, was started in 1990 and is the longest-running urban school voucher program in the country. Students have to come from low-income or moderate-income families to qualify for a voucher. Once enrolled, they bring the participating school a voucher payment of between $7,000 and $8,000 annually.
The state Legislature created a Racine voucher program in 2011 and a statewide voucher program in 2013.
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more Ayn Rand speak of libertarian wisdom.
"We need to break up the education monopoly and let the market work and bring prices down," he said. 
Really how much does a charter school "administrator" at the Shining Star Christian School make there Rand, because apparently these folks are based every where in the country siphoning off tax dollars--------------that's a lot of tax dollars to a "corporation" monopoly
Looks like there are more "leads" than support teachers in this Milwaukee charter place
Hey, Rand did you get any education from a public school at some point
Honk--------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
the lack of transparency in this scheme of this "charter school".,
Again what is this person's pay for the administrator and how much money do they get from the taxpayers to operate under, and what is the aggregate cost of this for-profit system of this business model.
How much money is being siphoned from the Department of Education at both the state and federal level
And has for the Ayn Rand neophyte , I think he should be asked if he went to a public education system again.
He should be called out on his duplicity, how much money is he getting from this business model, we have a right to know.
That is the problem with MSM they do not challenge these twits and ask really simple questions, to show there character and how they have no principles in this duplicity.
Honk---------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
should be just another free market commodity but national defense should not? 
