Working and middle-class families will pay higher taxes to support wealthy private schools. For example, in Milwaukee, home to the nation's oldest private school voucher program, the city made up for the loss of state aid to neighborhood schools, in part, by raising property taxes. Public dollars will be spent on private schools that do not have to reveal how they spend your tax dollars. Legislators and elected officials from both parties oppose Proposal 1 because it is a deceptive scheme. Proposal 1 opens the door for public dollars to flow to private schools in many different ways including private school vouchers, credits, tax benefits, exemptions or deductions, subsidies, grants or loans of public monies or property.
Private schools can pick and choose their students.
There is no guarantee that a child will be able to attend a private school with a school voucher. The backers of the Proposal 1 school voucher scheme want the program to go statewide, and they want to establish other means of using public dollars for private schools.