Vouchers: POLITIFACT Column made shaky assumption
Michael Mathias Journal Sentinel Letter to Editor 7/20/011
False, exclaims the Truth-O-Meter accompanying the July 13 PolitiFact column on a statement by Rep. Peter Barca that Republicans “voted to take funding away from their public schools in their districts to give it to private Milwaukee choice schools” (“Choice doesn’t cost schools statewide”).
Having read through the column, however, the rating seems like a real stretch.
The column admits the new budget hurts Milwaukee Public Schools and Milwaukee taxpayers. And it concedes “it is possible that if large numbers of the new choice students come from private schools rather than Milwaukee