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EDUCATION
Education
A quality education system is critical for Wisconsin businesses to compete in the global economy. Wisconsin Club for Growth supports educational reforms that encourage innovation, measure outcomes, improve accountability and reward excellence.
Wisconsin Club for Growth supports permanently lifting the enrollment cap on Milwaukee's School Choice Program which gives kids a way out of failing public schools where only 36% graduate. In Choice schools, 64% of the same children will graduate. A recent study by the Manhattan Institutefor Policy Research found:
- In the graduating class of 2003, Milwaukee students using vouchers to attend private high schools had a graduation rate of 64%.
- 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. Education
