The nation's first publicly funded parental choice program was underway. Helping Us Along the Way One of the stipulations opponents had placed in the law was to bar from the program any children already enrolled in private schools. On the political front, Mayor John Norquist vetoed a Milwaukee Common Council resolution opposing the choice program, while on the intellectual front the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute produced quality research and data on school choice that effectively refuted claims of opponents. When opponents sought an injunction to halt the program in 1995, Fumo's picture appeared on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel comforting a crying parent. When the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that the expanded Milwaukee Parental Choice Program was constitutional, the strategy of choice opponents changed, according to Fuller.
Power concedes nothing without demand. . . .
This struggle may be a moral one or a physical one, but it must be a struggle. Representative Jensen looked forward to celebrating 20 years of school choice in 2010.