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Ghost Students Topic of New Report

Ghost Students Topic of New Report

There’s a new report that says taxpayers are paying millions of dollars for students who are no longer in Wisconsin’s public schools.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty released its report on so-called Ghost Students yesterday. Ghost Students are students who are no longer enrolled in a local public school, but who are still one the state’s rolling three-year-average enrollment charts. WILL says nearly 20 thousand students fall into that category, costing 360 million-dollars a year. Wisconsin pays for public schools on a per-student basis, and has a hold-harmless provision in state law designed to shield schools against a sudden drop in enrollment. WILL’s report suggest getting rid of that system.

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