{"id":11803,"date":"2024-07-25T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11803"},"modified":"2024-07-25T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T10:58:29","slug":"declining-public-school-enrollment-yet-very-high-spending-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11803","title":{"rendered":"Declining Public School Enrollment, Yet Very High Spending Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/declining-public-school-enrollment-yet-very-high-spending-still\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/declining-public-school-enrollment-yet-very-high-spending-still\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s perspective, vouchers seem like a really good deal.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11804,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803\/revisions\/11804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}