Choice may not improve schools, study says / Report on MPS comes from longtime supporter of plan
Source: By ALAN J. BORSUK, Journal Sentinel (WI), Oct. 24, 2007
A study being released today suggests that school choice isn't a powerful tool for driving educational improvement in Milwaukee Public Schools.
But more surprising than the conclusion is the organization issuing the study: the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank that has supported school choice for almost two decades, when Milwaukee became the nation's premier center for trying the idea. The institute is funded in large part by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, an advocate of school choice.