More support for private schools

Milwaukee, Wisconsin provides evidence on how their voucher system is working.

• In the graduating class of 2003, Milwaukee students using vouchers to attend private high schools had a 64% graduation rate.
• That same year, the 37 Milwaukee public high schools for which data are available had a combined graduation rate of 36%.
• Milwaukee's six academically selective public high schools, whose students are likely to be more advantaged than choice students, had a combined graduation rate of 41% in 2003.
  

Competitiveness benefits schools and students. What a concept...