Vouchers & Politics: Commentary

Chris Rickert:

Despite all this, Gov. Scott Walker and lawmakers seem paralyzed in the face of potential bipartisan agreement.

Walker has said as far back as August that he's open to changing the voucher program to give preference to public school students. The Republican chairmen of the Senate and Assembly education committees have made similar noises. Yet none responded to messages from me saying essentially: Well, OK, so are you introducing legislation to do that?

Similarly, Gillian Drummond, spokeswoman for Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chris Larson, said "I have not heard of anything" on possible Democratic legislation on the issue in the Senate.

Speaking on background, a staffer for Rep. Sondy Pope, who has been outspoken in her criticism of underwriting private school tuition with vouchers, said "our caucus as a whole is looking" to do something even more stringent than in Racine, but was less than optimistic about Republicans going along.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 8, 2013 12:22 AM
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