{"id":12496,"date":"2023-09-12T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2023-09-12T12:35:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:35:58","slug":"a-history-of-school-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12496","title":{"rendered":"A history of school choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Matt Barnum:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milton Friedman keeps alive his economic argument, which was for every kid regardless of income to have a voucher. Harvard professor Christopher Jenks has an idea of targeted vouchers for low-income children, as a tool of empowerment. There\u2019s a small, sort of failed effort by the federal government in California to try out vouchers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a pretty solid push from a number of quarters in the \u201960s and \u201970s to provide some kind of government aid to religious schools, especially Catholic schools, because they were struggling during that time period. That didn\u2019t end up going anywhere meaningful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the \u201980s, President Reagan was an advocate for vouchers. That also didn\u2019t really go anywhere. Then the first modern school voucher program happens in Milwaukee in 1990. That\u2019s when you start to see the beginning of this latest era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your book has many characters, but to me if there was a main character, it was Polly Williams. Can you describe her and her role in the school choice movement?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Polly Williams was a Black Democratic legislator in Wisconsin. She was kind of a contrarian. Probably the best explanation for her would be that she was a Black nationalist. She was very interested in education in Milwaukee, and she was very concerned that Black students were not being well served by the Milwaukee school district. She tried legislatively to do a number of different proposals to help Black students in Milwaukee. She was shot down at just about every turn, and so became kind of frustrated with Democrats, with her own party, and willing to look at alternatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, it\u2019s kind of too bad that we\u2019ve got the smartest people at our universities, and yet we have to create a law<\/a> to tell them how to teach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data clearly indicate that being able to read is not a requirement for graduation<\/a> at (Madison) East, especially if you are black or Hispanic\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Question to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers<\/a> on Teacher Mulligans and our Disastrous Reading Results<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017: West High Reading Interventionist Teacher\u2019s Remarks to the School Board on Madison\u2019s Disastrous Reading Results <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madison\u2019s taxpayer supported K-12 school district, despite spending far more than most<\/a>, has long tolerated disastrous reading results<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn emphasis on adult employment\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Public Policy Forum Madison School District Report<\/a>[PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEAC: $1.57 million for Four Wisconsin Senators<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday Afternoon Veto: Governor Evers Rejects AB446\/SB454<\/a>; an effort to address our long term, disastrous reading results<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booked, but can\u2019t read (Madison)<\/a>: functional literacy, National citizenship and the new face of Dred Scott in the age of mass incarceration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When A Stands for Average<\/a>: Students at the UW-Madison School of Education Receive Sky-High Grades. How Smart is That?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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