#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.
TCAP scores show Tenn. ESA schools underperforming in proficiency to public schools
As Tennessee Governor Bill Lee pushes his school voucher program, newly released standardized test scores from the pilot program show the schools are still underperforming compared to public schools.
2 indicted for alleged use of ‘ghost’ children to defraud Arizona’s ESA program
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says Johnny Lee Bowers and Ashley Meredith Hewitt (a.k.a. Ashley Hopkins) were indicted by a state grand jury after they reportedly submitted applications to the ESA program for dozens of children. Of the 50 applications, the AG’s office says 43 were fictitious “ghost” children.
‘School choice’ would force bad budget choices on the state and school districts
Let’s be clear. This is a school voucher program that diverts public dollars to private schools or alternative education programs with little transparency or accountability to taxpayers.
Governor Lee Partners With “Fake Conservative Group” To Push School Vouchers
AFC founder, former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, is also one of the top donors to the related PAC, along with husband Dick DeVos, and billionaire Jeff Yass. Lee has connections with the group such as Gillum Ferguson, political strategist for AFC. Ferguson served as press secretary to Lee during the pandemic.
Funding school vouchers a slippery slope
Idaho taxpayers already fund one education system; why should we now have to fund yet another education system?
Just How Bad Is the ‘Educational Choice’ Bill in Congress that Trump Is Expected to Support?
Tax credit voucher schemes usually include a volume cap, which limits how large a hole the program will be allowed to blow in the government’s budget. ECCA sets a volume cap of $5 billion. That is $5 billion fewer dollars collected by the federal government—hardly a help with Trump’s promised belt-tightening.
How vouchers harm public schools
These programs’ growing popularity raises the question of whether letting public money leave the public school system and subsidize private forms of schooling is a way to improve children’s access to an excellent education. EPI’s analysis shows that vouchers harm public schools.
Idaho doesn’t have to accept that some form of school vouchers is inevitable | Opinion
But Idaho legislators — and Idaho taxpayers — shouldn’t take the bait. Any proposal that diverts any amount of money under any circumstances to help fund private education is the camel’s nose under the tent.
Is Ohio’s school voucher experiment panning out?
This means the policy change in Ohio to expand eligibility was largely a windfall to families that were already planning on sending children to private schools. And because of the policy change that was made, it was likely a regressive windfall that accrued mainly to well-off households.
Opinion: School voucher laws don’t help students, only politicians
Maybe, voters in Kentucky, Nebraska and Colorado blocked public tax dollars flowing into private hands not because they were bamboozled, but because they saw the problems in existing vouchers programs and recognized the ultimate goal was the decimation of public education.
Tom Horne just made it easier to cheat Arizona’s ESA voucher system
Purchases under $2,000 will be auto-approved, a week after a couple was indicted for defrauding the ESA program of $110,000.
Christian Nationalists Are Reshaping Texas’s Public School Curricula
The Texas State Board of Education will pay districts $60 a student to use a curriculum infused with Christian content.
Knoxville NAACP urges local lawmakers to reject school voucher bill
“We see this house bill one senate Bill one as a threat to the resilience to the strength and to the just overall resourcing of our public schools,” said NAACP President Reverend Sam Brown.
School choice backers keep changing their story
The “school choice” crowd can’t seem to get their story straight. The first iteration of their campaign to use state tax dollars to subsidize private schools came in 1954 in response to Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Another ESA scam in Arizona? I am so (not) shocked | Opinion
A Colorado couple is accused of creating dozens of fake kids to scam us out of more than $110,000 in ESA funds. What’s it going to take to get the GOP-run Legislature to lasso its sacred cow?
