{"id":6376,"date":"2023-10-13T20:14:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2023-10-13T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:58:17","slug":"dpi-data-school-choice-enrollment-continues-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6376","title":{"rendered":"DPI Data: School Choice Enrollment Continues to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/dpi-data-school-choice-enrollment-continues-to-grow\/\">https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/dpi-data-school-choice-enrollment-continues-to-grow\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WEST ALLIS<\/strong> \u2014 New data released today by the Department of Public Instruction shows that participation in Wisconsin\u2019s parental school choice programs continues to grow. Nearly 55,000 students are enrolled in one of Wisconsin\u2019s four parental choice programs \u2014 an increase of 2,760 from last year \u2014 attending one of 383 schools. Both marks represent record participation. This comes on the heels of Governor Tony Evers and Republican legislative leaders agreeing to an historic bipartisan funding increase as part of state budget negotiations earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSchool choice is growing because it works. All parents deserve the right to find the best education for their children, and students deserve the opportunity to attend a school where they are safe and will learn the tools needed to succeed in the classroom and in life,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0School Choice Wisconsin President Nicholas Kelly said.\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe future is bright for school choice in Wisconsin, and we look forward to continuing to strengthen and improve the program for families and taxpayers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Detailed breakdowns of today\u2019s report are below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Growth Trends of the Four Parental Choice Programs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;padding: 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Student-Growth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7046\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Student-Growth-1024x919-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"919\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;padding: 10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/School-Growth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7047\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/School-Growth-1024x923-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"923\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/dpi-data-school-choice-enrollment-continues-to-grow\/\">DPI Data: School Choice Enrollment Continues to Grow<\/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\/dpi-data-school-choice-enrollment-continues-to-grow\/ WEST ALLIS \u2014 New data released today by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":6378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6376","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\/6376","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}