Parents are hungry for schools where opportunity abounds — where kids are taught to lead lives of purpose for the good of their families, their communities and their futures.

Yet, it’s difficult to create that opportunity when Wisconsin students are so inequitably funded. Students attending choice schools are funded at 60% the value of their public-school counterparts, meaning schools must spend time and energy raising funds in order to provide the quality education that every child deserves.

So, instead of playing favorites, why not fund what should matter most to everybody in the Badger State? Students and the lives of purpose they choose to create.

Milwaukeean Scott Stewart sounds urgent when he talks of his son Savion’s school.

“These kids need this. They need this kind of positive environment.” Otherwise, he said, “there’s no telling what these kids would be doing right now, especially in the city of Milwaukee.”

The least Wisconsin can do is listen to what Stewart and other fathers and mothers say they need.

That school, Kingdom Prep Lutheran High School, is far different than the Milwaukee Public Schools options near Stewart’s northwest side home, options he once attended. “I didn’t want my kid to get wrapped up in the wrong environment,” he said.



“I was looking out for my kid.”

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