• In the graduating class of 2003, Milwaukee students using vouchers to attend private high schools had a graduation rate of 64%.
• That same year, the 37 Milwaukee public high schools for which data are available had a combined graduation rate of 36%.
• Milwaukee's six academically selective public high schools, whose students are likely to be more advantaged than choice students, had a combined graduation rate of 41% in 2003.

Graduation Rates in MPS (pdf)
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School Choice helps to improve Milwaukee Public Schools
Harvard economist Caroline M. Hoxby studied MPS test scores in schools with the largest number of students eligible for school choice vouchers. She compared those results with test scores at other MPS schools and with other Wisconsin public schools.

Hoxby concluded that Milwaukee public schools have a strong, positive response to competition from vouchers.
In an Era of Choice (pdf)
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School Choice Saves Money
It costs taxpayers $11,000 for every child in a Milwaukee Public School and only $5943 for a child in a choice school.

If school choice is reduced or eliminated, school districts outside of Milwaukee stand to lose tens of millions of dollars in school aid each year.
Letter from Legislative Fiscal Bureau
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Additional views and information on this vital issue can be found at these sources:

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  Editorial: A reprieve needed on caps
  
• Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
  Priority Issues: Testimony on 2005 AB 3 and 2005 SB 6
  
• SchoolChoiceWI.org
  Study Finds Milwaukee Voucher Students Have Higher Graduation Rates than Public School Students

FOR MILWAUKEE’S MOST VULNERABLE CHILDREN TO SUCCEED, THEY’VE GOT TO GET PAST THE BULLIES, THE DEALERS AND THE GOVERNOR.

Milwaukee's School Choice Program gives kids a way out of failing public schools where only 36% graduate. In Choice schools, 64% of the same children will graduate.

But Wisconsin has a limit on School Choice. A limit on how many kids get out of schools that don't work. We've reached that limit. That means the state, not parents, will decide who gets in and who gets left behind.

Worse yet, thousands of children will be thrown out of their current Choice school. Jim Doyle recently vetoed a bill that would have stopped this crisis by lifting the enrollment cap on Milwaukee's school choice program.

It's time to fight for your child's future. Call 608.266.1212 and tell Governor Doyle to get out of our children's way.

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