{"id":17156,"date":"2025-08-12T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17156"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:03:53","slug":"wisconsins-k-12-best-buy-private-school-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17156","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin\u2019s K-12 Best Buy: Private School Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wisconsins-k-12-best-buy-private-school-choice\/\">https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wisconsins-k-12-best-buy-private-school-choice\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>Private School Choice in Wisconsin Delivers \u2013<br \/>\nStronger Results, Lower Cost<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"253\" data-end=\"523\">Official data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) show that schools in the state\u2019s private school choice programs continue to outperform their public school peers while operating with substantially less funding.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"786\">In 2023-24, DPI Report Card scores for the Milwaukee, Racine, and statewide Wisconsin Parental Choice Programs were all higher than the scores for the corresponding public school districts. Yet, per-pupil revenue in choice schools was thousands of dollars less.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDPI gives choice schools higher Report Card scores even though they receive substantially less revenue,\u201d said Brenda White, chair, School Choice Wisconsin Board of Directors. \u201cSchool choice is Wisconsin\u2019s most cost-effective K-12 investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDPI\u2019s favorable ranking of school choice confirms that Wisconsin\u2019s education policy should be grounded in giving parents options,\u201d said Scott Manley, Executive Vice President of Government Relations at Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and co-chair of the Wisconsin Coalition for Education Freedom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>2023-24 Report Card Scores &amp; Revenue per Pupil<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8218 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Report-Card-Score.png\" alt=\"Cost Effectiveness Report Card Scores\" width=\"879\" height=\"736\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Measuring Cost-Effectiveness<\/h3>\n<p>School Choice Wisconsin\u2019s Cost-Effectiveness Index (CEI) calculates Report Card performance per $1,000 of revenue. By this measure, private choice schools are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>76%<\/strong> more productive than Milwaukee Public Schools<\/li>\n<li><strong>46%<\/strong> more productive than Racine Unified<\/li>\n<li><strong>33%<\/strong> more productive than statewide public schools outside Milwaukee and Racine\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These results are based on conservative assumptions, excluding federal aid (where public schools have an advantage) and comparing income-restricted choice program students to all public school students. A like-to-like income comparison would likely show an even larger productivity gap.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD REPORT &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wisconsins-Most-Cost-Effective-K-12-Program.pdf\">Wisconsin\u2019s Most Cost-Effective K-12 Program<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIEW NEWS RELEASE &gt;&gt;<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wisconsins-most-cost-effective-k-12-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin\u2019s Most Cost-Effective K-12 Program<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wisconsins-k-12-best-buy-private-school-choice\/\">Wisconsin\u2019s K-12 Best Buy: Private School Choice<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\">School Choice Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wisconsins-k-12-best-buy-private-school-choice\/ Private School Choice in Wisconsin Delivers \u2013 Stronger Results,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":17158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-choice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17159,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156\/revisions\/17159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}