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We've had the same thing here in Kansas (especially Johnson County) where public schools that closed their doors due to lack of area students, not only would not sell these schools to some pretty popular Christian schools - at ANY PRICE, they actually tore them down rather that allow private schools to move into the property!

One wonders (we not quite) what public schools are afraid of - competition, even in areas where aren't enough students to populate a public school???

Actually, there are enough students but no parents desiring to send their children to one run by the government, who would travel many miles to get to an overcrowded Christian school or resort to the choice of Home schooling.

I don't know about Wisconsin, but in KS it really isn't a matter of who is the sitting Governor but who owns and operates government schools! Our state government cannot force public school districts to sell "their" property to another entity, be that entity a school, Catholic, charter or Christian, or other.

A large school district in Johnson County, KS, after closing down a school desired to sell it and it's surrounding property to a developer who desired to put in high density housing and went to court to fight the neighbors, who rightfully claimed that the property wasn't zoned for such a thing, but with the help of the city (and the money changing hands among the city council and county commissioners) won!

Recently a middle school that had been newly improved planned to sell (again on behalf of the same district) their property to another developer who plans to put not only high density housing (meaning not single family residents) as well as include a senior living center that will include assisted living! Again all done behind homeowners who went to court to fight the school district AND their city, only to lose!