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John Witte
Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science;
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty
Office: 417 North Hall
Phone: 608 262-5715
Fax: 608 265-2663
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Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin - Madison
110 North Hall, 1050 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706-1389
John Witte is Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs and was Director of the La Follette School for three years. His research has focused on tax policy, politics and education, including charter schools. His current work, supported by the U.S. Department of Education and the Spencer Foundation, examines charter schools. He is Principal Investigator for a research team studying the longitudinal effects of the Milwaukee school voucher program. He has been a Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Professor Witte is author or co-author of six books and more than 50 articles or book chapters. In 1990 he was named the state evaluator of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. The Spencer Foundation funded a study of that program through December 1995. His recent work continues the focus on education policy. His most recent book, The Market Approach to Education, examines educational vouchers. Professor Witte received his doctorate in Political Science from Yale University.
Curriculum vitae
Courses
- PA 874 Policymaking Process: fall 2008, fall 2007, fall 2005 course materials
- PA 890 Federal Budget and Tax Policy and Administration: fall 2007
- PA 974 Seminar in Education Policy in the United States: spring 2005
- PA 974 Education Policy and Reform: spring 2009
- POLI SCI 219 Introduction to Public Policy: spring 2005
Research
Wisconsin Charter Schools Study
School Choice Demonstration Project
The Impact of Milwaukee Charter Schools on Student Achievement, Brookings Institute Issues in Governance Studies, No. 23, March 2009
Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition, RAND Corporation, 2009
La Follette School Working Paper Series
- Is University of Wisconsin Education Becoming More Elite? A Partial Answer / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-005 (shorter version is in spring 2009 La Follette Policy Report)
- The Political Economy of School Choice / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2004-002
- Private and Public Education in Wisconsin / La Follette School Working Paper No. 1995-002
- Fifth-Year Report: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program / La Follette School Working Paper No. 1995-001
- Fourth-Year Report: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program/ La Follette School Working Paper No. 1994-001