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Milwaukee Public Schools Universal Driver Education Pilot Project Evaluation Report, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
Milwaukee Public Schools Universal Driver Education Pilot Project Evaluation Report, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
Under the leadership of Superintendent Darienne Driver, Milwaukee Public Schools introduced a bold initiative to address the driver’s licensing needs of MPS students through a Universal Driver Education program. This report describes the pilot project offering free driver education services to 257 students at four high schools in spring and summer of 2016. The project successfully targeted subpopulations identified as most in need of affordable driver education, including youth of color, students living in neighborhoods with high child poverty, and students from families with lower-income. The vast majority (98%) of participants passed the state Division of Motor Vehicle written road …
Eti Research On Disparate Racial Impacts Of Using Driver's Licenses For Voter Ids, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Eti Research On Disparate Racial Impacts Of Using Driver's Licenses For Voter Ids, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
Research by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute on Wisconsin residents with and without driver’s licenses by race/ethnicity, age, geography, and income levels has aided public officials and the courts in assessing disparate impacts of state laws requiring photo IDs as a condition for voting and the Supreme Court’s examination of challenges to photo ID voter laws using the driver’s license as the primary form of identification.