#SCHOOLVOUCHERSCAMS
Our Voucher School Scam$ page, which we began in September of 2023 in response to the recent flood of irresponsible universal voucher programs includes a sorting feature that allows you to search voucher scams by state and by 12 categories.
Two Colorado residents plead guilty to $110K in Arizona school voucher fraud
Two Coloradans who forged documents to fraudulently enroll more than 40 real and fictitious children in Arizona’s school voucher program have both pleaded guilty to felony charges.
It Just Keeps Getting Worse
The scandal that is Arizona’s school voucher scheme keeps getting worse.
Ohio’s EdChoice vouchers are unconstitutional
Article I, section 7 forbids tax funding of religious education.
School vouchers benefit the wealthy, hurt public schools
Nearly 70% of private school students who received voucher assistance were already enrolled in private schools. Since 2023, the Florida voucher program has funneled around $1 billion out of public schools and into private schools.
U.S. investment in public education is at risk
Vouchers, state budget austerity, and federal attacks on the Department of Education threaten children’s futures
Tennessee to give more average per-pupil funding to voucher participants than public school students
Tennessee will spend an average of $7,023 per public school student in the state’s education funding formula, compared to the $7,295 given to students participating in the new Education Freedom Scholarship program.
Are Vouchers the Beginning of the End for Rural Public Schools?
But experience in other states suggests ESAs will constrict public education funding, and the research on their efficacy is disappointing at best. “Catastrophic” is how education researcher Joshua Cowen describes voucher findings from the last decade, citing learning loss comparable to the impacts from COVID-19 and Hurricane Katrina for students leaving public school systems.
TN public school funding per student lags behind Gov. Lee’s school vouchers, TDOE data finds
The data shows that state public school students will receive $272 less than students enrolled in Gov. Lee’s private school voucher program.
Texas private schools hire relatives and enrich insiders. Soon they can do it with taxpayer money.
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
GUEST EDITORIAL: Repeal Georgia’s Voucher Law — Put Public Dollars Back Into Public Schools
“When the Georgia General Assembly passed the “Georgia Promise Scholarship” voucher program, it was marketed as a lifeline for struggling students. In reality, it’s a political project that siphons taxpayer dollars from the very schools that need them most.”
Distant Dome: Education Freedom Account Expansion Will Be Costly
More than 80 percent of the students who have enrolled in the program were not in public schools when they were awarded EFA grants that were as high as $8,670 last school year when students received the base per-student aid, as well as differential aid by qualifying for free and reduced lunches and special education services, at the same rates as public schools.
Vouchers, Segregation, and the Moral Crisis in Florida’s Private Education
However, contrary to this claim, emerging data is beginning to reveal that FL HB1 2023, is disproportionately benefiting wealthier, white families, and consequently, facilitating the resegregation of Florida’s K-12 classrooms, some 70 years after the integration mandates of Brown v. Board of Education.3
Vouchers drain millions from public schools. Sarasota’s district floats an idea for change
“We can’t continue to have a death by a thousand cuts,” said county superintendent Terry Connor, who had to eliminate some support staff this year.
New and damning school voucher data confirm worst fears
In other words, the vast majority of voucher money is going to parents – most of them well-off – who never had any intention of sending their kids to public schools.
Shutting Down the Education Department Betrays the Mission of Public Schools
This idea is echoed by the current turn towards school vouchers, which atomize the learning experience by inviting, even pushing, families to exit the public system.