Voucher shcools in Wisconsin get more state aid than public schools under Walker

https://www.wpr.org/memo-voucher-schools-receive-more-state-funding-student
Under the new state budget put forth by Governor Walker, state aid for voucher schools will average between $1,000.00 and $1,700.00 more is state aids per student than public schools. All of the voucher school aid comes out of the same state budget line as public schools, so for every dollar going to a voucher school, public schools lose a dollar.

But Jim Bender, president of pro-voucher group School Choice Wisconsin, said that when all taxpayer funding — including local property taxes — is considered, public schools receive far more per student than choice schools.

"On a publicly funded student, you have to account for all the publicly funded streams of revenue for each individual student," Bender said. "That memo doesn't do that."

School revenue limits, which are based on a school’s state aid and property tax funding, averaged $10,312 per public school student in 2016.

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So "voucher" schools don't get property tax revenue and, in absolute dollars per student, public schools get roughly $2k per student more than voucher schools do AFTER the funding change mentioned in the OP.

This is one of the main reasons I ultimately oppose vouchers. If you look at Wisconsin, 95+% of the private schools getting flushed with new funding are religious schools[1], many of which are failing churches who have re-purposed a section of their church as a school. The entire point of vouchers from the side of the GOP has been to get more students into religious schools so that they can teach more about Jesus and less about science, like evolution.

Further, vouchers usually don't cover full tuition for a private school, so the middle class children can move to the private schools while the poorer families can't afford it so they have to stay in a now dramatically underfunded public school. This is purely a redistribution scheme of tax payer dollars into church coffers. I worry about even more of our children being brainwashed into religion when they don't have the mental abilities to defend themselves from it.

[1]In Madison, vouchers have been a boon to Lighthouse Christian School, which has doubled in size in four years and is planning to move to a much larger building. It describes itself as "a ministry of Lighthouse Church ... providing a Christian environment for children" and striving to instill "a love for God." Among grade school offerings is 'bible." The school doesn't teach about evolution. - See more at: https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases...wisconsin-voucher-system#sthash.0863WhRl.dpuf

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