Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist/blogger Patrick McIlheran illustrates how misconceptions–big ones–still pop up when discussing school choice:

For instance, I talked to one public official who helps make state education policy and who is against school choice. Fair enough: People of good will can disagree on this.

But the official complained that the state needs to put some kind of cap on how much aid can go to schools taking students in the choice program. The grants are just too high, he said, saying, several times, that a school gets $9,100 a year for taking in a choice student.

No, it doesn’t. You can check this for yourself with the Department of Public Instruction, led by a known opponent of school choice, and I confirmed it again myself:

A private Milwaukee school that educates a child in the school choice program gets, at most, $6,501 this year. It actually gets the total of its operating and debt service cost per student — as reckoned by an outside auditor — or the $6,501, whichever is less. 

As McIlheran goes on to point out, that’s a gap of roughly 40%.  And this is a state official talking about the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.  If misinformation is still flying about the oldest and biggest voucher program in the nation, I think it’s a safe bet similar errors abound regarding programs elsewhere.  (Hat tip: Owen at Boots and Sabers.)