Green Bay Public Schools will get less funding than Private Voucher Schools, and More.

I've been saying for a whole bunch of years that charter and voucher schools complicate education, by creating parallel systems that make it even harder to watchdog taxpayers money. Others are just now getting the message.

"Report cards" and tests should be used to improve schools, not dissolve them.

From WPT's Here and Now, these are the two best news stories I've seen on the voucher threat. You'll see that it's a lot more complicated that the ridiculous reason given by a school voucher advocate; it's a parents right. Really, the constitution says that? Do parents really know what's best, or have they been out of the loop for 10 to 15 years, since they left school? It comes down to feel good advertising, sloganeering, by the privateers who are almost all former Republican Assembly Speakers. That should tell you something.

Here's what were looking at in Green Bay. This is edited and features only the highlights. Check out the whole piece from Zac Schultz here:



Anchor Frederica Freyberg takes a closer look at Racine, where a voucher supporter and now budget director warns schools will be closed. What he has to say is very unsettling: