Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s school voucher program will generate nearly $500 million in economic benefits to the city during the next 20 years, a study has found.

Researchers Corey DeAngelis, distinguished doctoral fellow at the University of Arkansas, and Will Flanders, education research director at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, conducted a study they declared in a December 2016 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel op-ed, “for the first time, combines state-of-the-art statistical techniques with existing peer-reviewed research to show the long-term economic impact of the choice program and high-performing schools.”

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