{"id":7644,"date":"2023-12-11T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T18:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2023-12-11T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T18:02:02","slug":"wmc-defends-choice-independent-charter-schools-in-new-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7644","title":{"rendered":"WMC Defends Choice &amp; Independent Charter Schools in New Ad Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-defends-choice-independent-charter-schools-in-new-ad-campaign\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-defends-choice-independent-charter-schools-in-new-ad-campaign\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MADISON<\/strong> \u2013 Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce \u2013 through its affiliate, WMC Issues Mobilization Council \u2013 is fiercely defending the state\u2019s choice and independent charter schools in a new ad campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The new 30 second ad \u2013 which is running statewide on digital platforms \u2013 responds directly to a lawsuit that aims to eliminate educational options that 65,000 students rely on. Thousands of Wisconsin families would be devastated, and the entire education system disrupted, if the school choice and independent charter programs were to end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lawsuit would rip thousands of low-income students from their schools, stopping them from breaking the cycle of poverty and achieving their dreams,\u201d the narrator says in the ad.<\/p>\n<p>Employers have made it abundantly clear that they need students graduating from high school with the hard and soft skills to succeed in a career. Unfortunately, nearly three-quarters of Wisconsin businesses say the public K-12 system is not preparing students for the workforce \u2013 not surprising given that roughly six in 10 students cannot read or do math at grade level.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, students in both choice and independent charter schools routinely have better academic outcomes than their public school counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>That is why the business community and a large majority of voters support school choice and independent charter school options. According to a recent poll, 67 percent of likely Wisconsin voters support school choice, including a majority of republicans, independents and democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWisconsin kids deserve choice and independent charter schools,\u201d the narrator adds. \u201cWhy would someone take that away?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/action-center\/school-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view the ad.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-defends-choice-independent-charter-schools-in-new-ad-campaign\/\">WMC Defends Choice &amp; Independent Charter Schools in New Ad Campaign<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-defends-choice-independent-charter-schools-in-new-ad-campaign\/ MADISON \u2013 Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce \u2013 through its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7645,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions\/7645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}