Business Community and School Choice

The School Choice issue continues to burn in Milwaukee. I continue to believe Doyle will somewhat cave and announce a one-year reprieve of a higher cap tonight (Getting him past the election). Meanwhile, the debate is heating up and will cloud the coverage his State of the State Address gets in the Milwaukee media tonight and tomorrow. Talk Radio is already all over it.

Now, the Milwaukee business community has aggressively entered the blistering debate over the school choice caps.

In a full page ad in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 prominent business leaders offer this impassioned plea to Governor Doyle:

Unless you remove the cap, up to 4,000 Choice students could be forced out of their schools by next fall. The lives of thousands of families will be disrupted. Dozens of schools achieving good results will likely close. Fragile neighborhoods will be destabilized.

How will this help Milwaukee, Governor Doyle? How does shutting the door to greater educational opportunity for thousands of low-income children help Wisconsin?

You have the power to remove the cap permanently by signing a no-strings-attached bill that a majority of legislators have shown they will support. Please, Governor Doyle, fix this problem once and for all. We've seen your leadership on other economic development issues. We need your leadership on this one.