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December 2005
The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has attempted for more than two years to devise a workable plan to ration seats when the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) reached the statutory enrollment cap. Milwaukee’s school choice coalition acknowledges and appreciates DPI’s good faith efforts.
The plan announced today will mean that in the 2006-07 school year hundreds — perhaps thousands — of students will be forced to leave the schools their families have chosen. The ability of schools to make reasonable fiscal and educational plans will evaporate. Some schools might close.
Three conclusions remain apparent:
• There is no such thing as a workable rationing plan.
Under any scenario, students, families and schools
will face unnecessary uncertainty and disruption of
their educational plans.
• The arbitrary enrollment cap serves no public policy
goal.
• The need to lift the cap remains clear. As one
legislator succinctly explained two years ago, “If we
just lift the cap, all these problems go away.”
At the earliest date possible, we hope the Legislature will send Governor Doyle a plan to lift the cap and that Governor Doyle will sign that plan into law.
The letter from DPI can be viewed at the link below.
Letter From DPI
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