NEPC Review: Wisconsin’s Most Cost-Effective K-12 Program (School Choice Wisconsin, August 2025). [Reprint].
Abstract
Bruce Baker's review of the School Choice Wisconsin report, Wisconsin’s Most Cost-Effective K-12 Program, reprinted here with the kind permission of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), University of Colorado Boulder (http://nepc.colorado.edu). The review was made possible in part by funding from Great Lakes Center for Educational Research and Practice.
Author Biography
Bruce D. Baker, University of Miami
Bruce Baker is Professor and Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami. Professor Baker is widely recognized as the nation’s leading scholar on the financing of public elementary and secondary education systems. His research spans public education finance and policy, postsecondary education finance and policy, teacher and administrator labor markets and education law. Professor Baker is author of two recent books from Harvard Education Press: School Finance and Education Equity, Lessons from Kansas (2021), and Educational Inequality and School Finance, Why Money Matters for America's Students (2018). In addition, Professor Baker has authored and coauthored a multitude of peer-reviewed research articles and law review articles, as well as influential policy reports for organizations including the Economic Policy Institute, Learning Policy Institute and Center for American Progress. Professor Baker is co-principal investigator on the creation of the School Finance Indicators Database, a resource used by researchers, advocates and policymakers across the country. He has consulted with numerous state legislatures on the design and reform of their state school funding systems, and has testified as an expert witness in state and federal constitutional litigation over the equity and adequacy of school funding in several states.
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[Report Reviewed] School Choice WI. (2025, August). Wisconsin’s most cost-effective K-12 program. https://schoolchoicewi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Wisconsins-Most-Cost-Effective-K-12-Program.pdf
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