29.4 Percent of MPS Teachers Choose Private Schools for Their Children
By Alliance for Choices in Education
Last Updated: Sept. 7, 2004
More than twenty-nine per cent of public school teachers in Milwaukee send their children to private schools, according to federal census data in a national study being released today.
Compared to all parents in the nation’s 100 largest cities, public school teachers in Milwaukee are sixty-eight per cent more likely to enroll their children in a private school, according to the study.
"We support a teacher's right to choose a private school. We simply ask them to support the same freedom for low-income families," said Howard Fuller, chairman of the Alliance for Choices in Education (ACE).
"How would Milwaukee teachers feel if only 15 percent of them could use private schools? They would call it outrageous, and they would be right," Fuller added.
State law caps participation in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program at 15 percent of enrollment in the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). Efforts to eliminate the cap are opposed and have been blocked by the state’s largest teachers’ union, the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC). In the last legislative session Governor James Doyle twice vetoed bills to eliminate the cap.
Fuller said, "ACE has no problem with teachers choosing schools they think are best for their children. It’s hypocritical for them to oppose that choice for low-income parents. If it’s good enough for teachers, why not other parents?"
See below for a PDF of the study, "Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School?" published by the Fordham Foundation.
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fordham study
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"Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School?" Fordham Foundation, Sept. 7, 2004
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ACE_rel_9.2.pdf
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"29.4 Percent of MPS Teachers Choose Private Schools for Their Children," ACE press release, Sept. 7, 2004
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mjs_9.16 .pdf
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"More City Teachers than Public Pick Private Schools," Alan J. Borsuk, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 16, 2004
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