45% of Voucher Students Go to Catholic School
About 45% of students participating in the Milwaukee private school voucher
program this year are attending Catholic schools, according to a report
in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The newspaper examined records at the Department of Public Instruction
and discovered:
- 4,000 voucher students are attending religious schools, and 2,200
are at private, non-sectarian schools.
- Of the 6,200 voucher students, only 1,400 attended Milwaukee Public
Schools last year.
- 57 of the schools participating in the voucher program are religious
and 30 are non-sectarian.
- 2,785 students attend Catholic schools; 561 attend Lutheran schools;
and 654 attend other religious schools.
Posted November 20, 1998