The Milwaukee voucher program, as implemented in 1990, allowed only nonsectarian private schools to participate in the program. However, following a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling, the program was expanded to include religious private schools in 1998. This second phase of the voucher program led...

Funding for New Jersey's low-income school districts tumbled in the most recent recession, and the Abbott districts — a group of poor urban districts that for almost two decades received special appropriations from the state — were hit especially hard. A comparison with the state's other...

Funding for New Jersey's low-income school districts tumbled in the most recent recession, and the Abbott districts — a group of poor urban districts that for almost two decades received special appropriations from the state — were hit especially hard. A comparison with the state's other...