“It was both relieving and gratifying to hear that Governor Doyle has finally agreed with the majority of Milwaukee’s low-income families and business community that the artificial cap on the city’s parental choice program needed to be lifted.
It is a great day for the people affiliated with the program, and for those who have worked tirelessly over the past three years to convince the Governor that rationing needed to be avoided. If this agreement becomes law, more students will be given the chance to expand and improve their educational opportunities and enter into this successful and thriving program.
I look forward to learning more about the details behind the agreement struck today between Speaker Gard and Governor Doyle, and I accept and embrace my role of helping to immediately shepherd this compromise agreement through the legislative process.
As the co-author of 2005 AB 941 / SB 521, I remain committed to the baseline concept of lifting the current 15% enrollment cap.”
