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 charter scandals by state and by 12 categories. You can also search by keyword. Just use the ‘X’ to clear search terms and return to the full list of scandals.
A Christian school in North Georgia that took taxpayer dollars to educate students with learning disabilities has closed amid criticism from parents over the quality of education and claims of theft from a fundraiser.
Read MoreTo capture just how bad it is, I asked Steve Dyer, a former Ohio Stare Rep. who tracks the attack on public education as closely as anyone out there, to put together a LETTERMAN-style TOP 10 LIST—of the worst 10 datapoints that capture just how disastrous the reckless universal voucher giveaway is in Ohio.
Read MoreThis is a post about politics, not education. The politics is that billionaire Amos Hostetter, benefactor of Barr and a donor of $2 million in dark money to the 2016 charters campaign, is using his money to shape the K-12 policy debate.
Read MoreThe results in Arizona could well be a preview of what’s coming in Arkansas: A CNN investigation found that the program has cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than anticipated, disproportionately benefited richer areas, and funneled taxpayer funds to unregulated private schools that don’t face the same educational standards and antidiscrimination protections that public schools do.
Read More“Instead of siphoning money and increasing tax breaks to subsidize private education, we have a responsibility to ensure all students have access to quality K-12 education.”
Read MoreAnd a third is examining how these academies, operating in a “landscape marred by historical racial tensions,” receive public money through Alabama’s voucher-style private school tuition grants.
Read MoreWhen states sacrifice scarce budget dollars for private school tuition vouchers, politicians choose to ignore that public schools are everything that private schools are not.
Read MorePrivate schools are exempt from a host of state and federal regulations when it comes to access, discrimination, oversight, and approved curriculum.
Read MorePrivate schools also decide who they allow into their schools — 89% of the private schools receiving the most funding through vouchers discriminate in some capacity within their admissions process, thereby excluding a significant proportion of North Carolina students in the state from having access.
Read MoreAmid calls for increased school choice, we must consider: by providing taxpayer-funded vouchers to schools that practice discriminatory admissions policies and are held to some of the weakest accountability and reporting requirements in the country, are we providing more quality school options or instead expanded schools’ choice?
Read MoreA new report from CNN sheds light on the right-wing effort to funnel public funds to ultraconservative private Christian schools.
Read MorePlain and simple, vouchers are a scam that is basically a rebate to better-off families and does not truly help students who are low-income.
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