Justice Department ‘stonewalls’ senator over Wisconsin school choice investigation

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Watchdog.org:

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — No results, no explanation and no end in sight.

 

That sums up the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into whether the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.

 

The investigation has dragged on for four years and the DOJ declines to divulge any information about it.

 

Last month, the DOJ even refused a request from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson R-Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, for information about the probe.

 

“It was a stiff arm, a stonewall,” Johnson told Watchdog.org, when asked to describe the DOJ response to his request.

 

Johnson was in Milwaukee this week to chair a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the MPCP.

 

In the absence of any explanation from the DOJ as to why its investigation is continuing, Johnson suspects the real reason may be a desire to harass the school voucher program