This post originally appeared at https://wifamilycouncil.org/radio/declining-public-school-enrollment-yet-very-high-spending-still/

Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty analyzed recent data from the Department of Public Instruction and found these key points: In the past five years, public school enrollment has declined by nearly four point eight percent while voucher enrollment is up almost twenty-seven percent. Inflation-adjusted spending per student is down from two years ago, but up nearly one thousand dollars per student from twenty ten. The statewide average in twenty twenty-two was well over seventeen thousand dollars per student.

Declining enrollments but still very high per-pupil spending. Meanwhile, the highest voucher in our state is twelve thousand dollars for a high school student attending a private school. Elementary and junior high students receive up to nine thousand five hundred. From a taxpayer’s perspective, vouchers seem like a really good deal.

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