Compromise Reached on Milwaukee Voucher Program

Bad news if you live in Milwaukee and sent your kid to a Catholic school because you wanted his or her education to be "Catholic":

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle and state Assembly Speaker John Gard announced a compromise Friday to expand enrollment in Milwaukee's private school voucher program while increasing funding for reducing class sizes statewide.

The proposal, which still needs legislative approval, would increase voucher slots by 7,500 to about 22,500, require all 124 private and religious choice schools to obtain accreditation from an outside group and make them administer nationally standardized tests to their students.

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My Comments:
I once favored voucher programs. THIS is the reason that I do not favor vouchers anymore.

The government has done a crappy job of running the tax-supported government schools. Why the hell do we want them screwing up the Catholic schools by requiring mandates for outside accreditation and administration of standardized testing?

Once the government gets its claws into something, it can't help but destroy it through bureaucratization and enforcement of leftist PC orthodoxy.