The 1990 launch of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program marked the dawn of the modern school voucher movement. It was the product of an unlikely collaboration. Conservative acolytes of free-market economist Milton Friedman in the administration of Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson aligned with progressive black Democrats like the late state Rep. Polly[Read More…]
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Bill Clinton, voucher guy?
Not long before he ran for president, Bill Clinton saluted a school choice pioneer. In 1990, as the governor of Arkansas, he wrote a letter to Wisconsin Rep. Annette “Polly” Williams, the African-American lawmaker who authored the bill that created America’s first major, modern school voucher program. (Thanks to the[Read More…]