Milwaukee’s Example
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Talk about school vouchers in New York City is generally dismissed as some kind of libertarian fantasy. But in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there have been school vouchers in place since 1990. Last year nearly 13,000 students were rescued from the government-run school system and allowed to attend private or parochial schools using vouchers in Milwaukee. A scholar at the Manhattan Institute, Jay Greene, this week released a new study comparing the graduation rates of the voucher students with the students in the government-run schools. The voucher students had a 64% graduation rate, while the government-run schools had an abysmal 34% graduation rate.
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