The Wisconsin Legislature now requires private choice schools to report students' test scores so that both public and voucher schools receiving taxpayer dollars are being held publicly accountable for student performance.
Taxpayer-funded payments to children choosing to attend private schools using a voucher will increase an estimated $217 in each of the next two years.
More La Crosse area families may have opportunity for free private school education.
Area private schools consider applying for Wisconsin Parental Choice Program
Aquinas has been accepted into the voucher program, but parents have to wait another week to see if they get chosen in the lottery.
Parents wishing to use a taxpayer funding voucher to send their children to a private school have until Friday to apply.
A new report shows that supporters of the private school voucher program have spent $10 million over the past decade driving their agenda in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin state Superintendent Tony Evers says expansion of school vouchers for Green Bay should be removed from the state budget.
