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The architect of the pioneering school-voucher program in Milwaukee is pushing her colleagues in the Wisconsin legislature to impose tighter rules on the private schools that participate.

Rep. Annette "Polly" Williams is backing a proposal by state education officials to bar private schools in the program from charging voucher students registration and book fees that public schools do not impose, according to Greg Doyle, the spokesman for the state education department, which proposed the rule last month.

The department also proposed that schools be prohibited from requiring the parents of voucher students to participate...