Milwaukee, one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan
areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at
improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to
attend a selection of private schools. The results of this
experiment, however, have been overshadowed by the explosion of
emotional debate it provoked nationwide. In this book, John Witte
provides a broad yet detailed framework for understanding the
Milwaukee experiment and its implications for the market approach
to American education. In a society supposedly devoted to equality
of opportunity, the concept of school choice or voucher programs
raises deep issues about liberty versus equality, government versus
market, and about our commitment to free and universal education.
Witte brings a balanced perspective to the picture by demonstrating
why it is wrongheaded to be pro- or anti-school choice in the
abstract. He explains why the voucher program seems to be working
in the specific case of Milwaukee, but warns that such programs
would not necessarily promote equal education--and most likely harm
the poor--if applied universally, across the socioeconomic
spectrum.
The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the provision
of education in America. It goes on to situate the issue of school
choice historically and politically, to describe the program and
private schools in Milwaukee, and to provide statistical analyses
of the outcomes for children and their parents in the experiment.
Witte concludes with some persuasive arguments about the importance
of specifying the structural details of any choice program and with
a call supporting vouchers for poor inner-city children, but not a
universal program for all private schools.
Voucher programs continue to be the most controversial approach
to educational reform." The Market Approach to Education" provides
a thorough review of where the choice debate stands through 1998.
It not only includes the "Milwaukee story" but also provides an
analysis of the role, history, and politics of court decisions in
this most important First Amendment area.
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