State paid millions to failed voucher schools

[Viking12]

State paid millions to failed voucher schools
Report: Wisconsin taxpayers paid $139 million to failed schools in voucher system since 2004


MADISON, Wis. -

Wisconsin taxpayers have paid about $139 million to private schools that ended up being barred from the state's voucher system for failing to meet requirements since 2004, according to a newspaper report.

State Department of Public Instruction data shows more than two-thirds of the 50 schools terminated from the state's voucher system in the last 10 years had stayed open for five years or less, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. They were all in Milwaukee.

Eleven schools, paid a total of $4.1 million, were terminated from the voucher program after just one year.

The voucher program expanded from Milwaukee and Racine to a statewide program last school year.

http://www.channel3000.com/education/state-paid-millions-to-failed-voucher-schools/29077728

[jwirr]

1. No surprise. Two problems: private for profit and exempt from state rules.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Too Big To Fail

[Snarkoleptic]

3. k&r

[riversedge]

4. Walker dishes out $$ to his doners and cronies. Taxpayers till elect

the jerk.