For about $18,000, a Wisconsin teenager can study for a year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the flagship of the state’s university system and one of the most respected public universities in the country.
For $45,620, he can pay the annual cost of attending Harvard University, one of the most famous and prestigious universities in the world.
And for more than $90,000, he can spend a year at Ethan Allen School, the locked campus in Waukesha County where teenage boys go after committing crimes such as armed robbery, battery and first-degree sexual assault.