"We absolutely had to say, 'Don't enroll anymore,' because we are very close to the cap," Tony Evers, the deputy state superintendent, said Tuesday as the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction sent out letters to schools on the matter.

MILWAUKEE (AP)—Schools participating in Milwaukee's voucher program have been told by state officials to stop enrolling new students in that program because it appears to be approaching its enrollment cap of about 14,750 students.

"We absolutely had to say, 'Don't enroll anymore,' because we are very close to the cap," Tony Evers, the deputy state superintendent, said Tuesday as the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction sent out letters to schools on the matter.

The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program lets low-income families send their children to private schools using state-funded tuition vouchers. The cap is set at 15 percent of the enrollment of Milwaukee Public Schools.