{"id":17692,"date":"2025-10-16T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17692"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:58:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:58:01","slug":"choice-enrollment-surpasses-60000-students-in-wisconsin-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17692","title":{"rendered":"Choice Enrollment Surpasses 60,000 Students in Wisconsin for the First Time Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/choice-enrollment-surpasses-60000-students-in-wisconsin-for-the-first-time-ever\/\">https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/choice-enrollment-surpasses-60000-students-in-wisconsin-for-the-first-time-ever\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span class=\"None\"><i>Significant increases in schools participating in Special Needs Scholarship Program, and others<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 16, 2025 (BROOKFIELD, Wis.)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Data released today by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) highlight historic growth in the state\u2019s private school parental choice programs. More than 60,000 students are enrolled in one of the state\u2019s four choice programs \u2013 a record-breaking total that has nearly doubled in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents are speaking loudly and clearly about what they want for their children: more educational options different than those offered by public schools. Lawmakers in Madison should continue to prioritize protecting these private-school options for all students,\u201d said <strong>Carol Shires, Vice President of Operations for School Choice Wisconsin<\/strong>. \u201cThis milestone validates the strong support from Wisconsin\u2019s political leaders for strengthening the financial foundation of parental choice programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This growth comes as an enrollment cap on the statewide Wisconsin Parental Choice Program is set to expire in the 2026-27 school year, paving the way for continued growth of the program. This will allow more families \u2013 including those now on waiting lists \u2013 to benefit from the nation\u2019s longest-standing program committed to educational freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Public polling has shown that School Choice is <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/major-shift-in-wisconsin-public-opinion-on-school-choice-sends-message-to-candidates-wrn-voices\/\">incredibly popular<\/a> among Wisconsinites. A poll conducted ahead of the 2024 presidential election in Wisconsin found that 68% of voters favored school choice policies for all Wisconsin families.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8393 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/total-schools-in-program.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8392 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/total-enrollment-growth.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8391 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/school-growth-by-program.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"552\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8390 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/enrollment-growth-by-program.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/choice-enrollment-surpasses-60000-students-in-wisconsin-for-the-first-time-ever\/\">Choice Enrollment Surpasses 60,000 Students in Wisconsin for the First Time Ever<\/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\/choice-enrollment-surpasses-60000-students-in-wisconsin-for-the-first-time-ever\/ Significant increases in schools participating in Special Needs Scholarship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":17694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17692","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\/17692","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=17692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17699,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692\/revisions\/17699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}