{"id":5283,"date":"2023-08-30T17:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2023-08-30T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:26:51","slug":"the-school-choice-advantage-more-bang-for-the-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5283","title":{"rendered":"The School Choice Advantage: More Bang For The Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/the-school-choice-advantage-more-bang-for-the-buck\/\">https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/the-school-choice-advantage-more-bang-for-the-buck\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction enable a comparison of public and private school cost-effectiveness. The results are described in a new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Cost-Effectiveness-of-Wisconsins-Private-School-Choice-Programs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Choice Wisconsin report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Using conservative assumptions, the report shows a <strong>marked advantage<\/strong> for schools in the state\u2019s private school choice programs. The advantage is most pronounced in Milwaukee and Racine. A lesser but still sizable advantage exists in the statewide program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure 1<\/strong> shows that per pupil public school revenue substantially exceeds that at private choice schools. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6951 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Figure_1_Chart.jpg\" alt=\"Chart showing Per Pupil Revenue\" width=\"1000\" height=\"815\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DPI Report Card scores show a different picture. Despite less revenue, <strong>Figure 2<\/strong> shows <strong>higher Report Card scores for the Milwaukee and Racine choice programs<\/strong>. Report Card scores for low-income students in the statewide Wisconsin Parental Choice Program are similar to scores for all students in public school districts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6952 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Figure_2_Chart-e1693415743233.jpg\" alt=\"Chart showing Report Card Scores\" width=\"800\" height=\"652\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The School Choice Wisconsin report uses a Cost-Effectiveness Index to measure Report Card results per $1,000 of school revenue. <strong>Figure 3<\/strong> shows for a cost-effective advantage for the MPCP, RPCP, and WPCP of 89%, 92%, and 42%, The complete SCW report describes conservative assumptions that likely understate the cost-effective advantage of schools in the state\u2019s parent choice programs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6953 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Figure_3_Chart-e1693415787710.jpg\" alt=\"Chart showing Cost-Effectiveness Index\" width=\"800\" height=\"652\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD REPORT &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Cost-Effectiveness-of-Wisconsins-Private-School-Choice-Programs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cost-Effectiveness of Wisconsin\u2019s Private School Choice Programs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD REPORT SUMMARY &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-School-Choice-Advantage-More-Bang-For-The-Buck.pdf\">The School Choice Advantage: More Bang For The Buck<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/the-school-choice-advantage-more-bang-for-the-buck\/\">The School Choice Advantage: More Bang For The Buck<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\">School Choice Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/the-school-choice-advantage-more-bang-for-the-buck\/ Data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction enable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":5285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5283","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\/5283","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=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}