Are private voucher schools failing to deliver as promised?

Wisconsin kids enrolled in private school choice programs aren?t performing as well as their public school counterparts on standardized exams, according to data released Tuesday by the state?s Department of Public Instruction, sparking another round of partisan debate about whether taxpayers should be funding voucher programs. John Witte, a UW-Madison political science professor and a national expert on voucher programs, counters that some of his most recent research is suggesting that while math scores between public and voucher school students in Milwaukee are similar, kids attending the private schools are starting to make strides in reading.