Wisconsin Places Limits on School Choice | The American Spectator

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers apparently thinks that when it comes to allowing parents to choose schools for their children, there are limits.
“We have plenty of voucher schools,” he said to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last week. “We don’t need voucher money.”
The Governor was referring to a provision of the federal government’s One Big Beautiful Bill that allows states to permit 501(c)3 organizations to grant scholarships to local K-12 students. Any U.S. taxpayer can donate up to $1,700 annually to these Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) and get the money back in tax credits.
But there’s a catch. The disbursement of funds must be approved by the state’s governor. And Evers has made it clear he won’t do it in Wisconsin.
Apparently, Evers thinks citizens can do better things with their hard-earned money than help needy families pay for nonpublic school tuition…
Apparently, Evers thinks citizens can do better things with their hard-earned money than help needy families pay for nonpublic school tuition, programs in public schools, as well as buy books, computers, and supplies to help their kids learn.
Besides, Evers has to keep those unions happy, right? Because we all know teachers are more important than students, right?
Although not a Wisconsin resident, I am a father of five eight-and-under children, so I know the financial burden of paying fair tuition at nonpublic schools to avoid the catastrophe at public schools. I’m grateful that my home state of Georgia offers some relief in the form of vouchers, but only if your local school ranks in the state’s bottom quarter academically.
As you can imagine, that program — the Georgia Promise Scholarship Program — is criticized on the left for “punishing” schools struggling the most, because how else can you straighten out your school but by throwing more money at it?
What boggles my mind about the Wisconsin situation is that it will cost the state nothing to participate in the program. The left blames the fed…