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Review of Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs

Think Twice - Apr 08, 2025

Publisher/Think Tank - School Choice Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty

Author(s) - School Choice Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty

Scholars, advocates, and policymakers have long expressed the concern that many private schools receiving taxpayer subsidies through voucher programs would fail to serve children with disabilities. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, in collaboration with School Choice Wisconsin, recent published a report challenging those concerns.

Reviewer(s) - Maria M. Lewis, Pennsylvania State University; Julie F. Mead, University of Wisconsin-Madison

In their review of Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs, Maria M. Lewis of Pennsylvania State University and Julie F. Mead of the University of Wisconsin-Madison determine that the report’s conclusions challenge precise state data with imprecise administrative estimates and are therefore misleading and unhelpful.