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Thursday, July 31, 2003


Milwaukee Mayor May Take Over Schools
A candidate for Milwaukee's mayoral office thinks that the next mayor ought to take over the Milwaukee Public Schools. Advocates cite the experience of Chicago. (Detroit had a state takeover a few years ago.) The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, by the way, cautions policy makers to not over-estimate the benefits of mayoral takeover. In brief, they find that the financial progress of the mayoral takeover has been significant, but educational progress has not. In other words, changing one government office for another may improve fiscal performance, but won't change the fundamental problem of having a government monopoly.

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