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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. 

05/30/2025

Federal Voucher System — Like Florida’s — Would Divert Funding to Private Schools and Home-Schoolers

Florida has lessons to offer about vouchers. Congress should learn from the state as the cautionary tale that it is and act to preserve and support public education for all students by rejecting the House’s proposal.

05/29/2025

The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation

Despite mounting evidence that such programs are both ineffective and unpopular, school choice remains a cornerstone of the MAGA agenda.

05/28/2025

‘Big beautiful bill’ creates school voucher program that benefits the rich

The national school voucher program included in a bill passed by the U.S. House will make the rich richer and further marginalize students based on religious, economic and disability status, panelists said during a recent town hall meeting.

05/28/2025

Private school choice opponents say tax plan harms public schools

“It’s taking dollars away from programs that would strengthen all schools, expand access to early childhood, make sure that our kids have access to mental health counselors, to other mental health supports — resources our students need that you are not going to get from the private marketplace,” Forte said.

05/27/2025

The 12News I-Team looked into which zip codes are receiving the most school vouchers. Here’s what the data showed.

I-Team investigation: Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts were supposed to level the educational playing field — they have primarily only helped the rich.

05/27/2025

Opinion | Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding unaccountable private schools

As Congress considers a federal voucher scheme as part of its budget reconciliation package, we should carefully reflect on whether Wisconsin’s sweeping voucher programs have benefited students. And the simple, honest answer is that they have not.

05/27/2025

TN Vouchers: Funding Discrimination

This is what vouchers are about–defunding a system that has an obligation to serve all students and giving that money to a system that can discriminate against whoever for whatever reason.

05/25/2025

Speaking Out Against School Vouchers

Lawmakers consistently advocate for accountability for how public schools spend money, but don’t expect any accountability for how vouchers are spent.

05/22/2025

Op-Ed: Here’s what to say about school vouchers

They are a subsidy for private and religious schools that don’t produce results and aren’t supported by the public.

05/21/2025

Why Florida school vouchers can pay for Disney tickets, TVs while draining billions from public schools

WESH 2 Investigates uncovers how many families paid for theme park tickets with state-funded vouchers

05/20/2025

Hamilton County superintendent calls voucher expansion ‘a threat to public education’

Hamilton County Superintendent Dr. Justin Robertson is calling the voucher program that just expanded across Tennessee “one of the greatest threats to public education.”

05/20/2025

Opinion: Gov. Dunleavy is putting public education up for sale. Here’s why Alaskans must reject the voucher Trojan horse.

In Alaska, public education is a constitutional mandate. Yet under the guise of “parental choice”, “open-enrollment” and “flexibility,” a growing effort is underway to dismantle our public school system.

05/18/2025

School Vouchers Are a Big, Fat Tax Break for the Wealthy | Opinion

Vouchers are neither an evidence-based education policy nor a benevolent gift to low-income families fleeing community schools. They are a tax scheme designed to benefit the wealthiest Americans at the harm and expense of most everyone else. Above the law and the locally elected boards that govern our nation’s public schools, privatization programs are rife with the very fraud, waste, and abuse this administration has pretended to care about chainsawing from the federal budget.

05/18/2025

School Vouchers Could Cause Another Headache for Texas

In Texas, educators and advocates are raising the alarm about how the state’s program could further strain public school districts tasked with conducting the evaluations to determine whether students qualify for these services. Public school districts have to conduct those evaluations even for those students who do not plan to enroll in public schools.

05/18/2025

Religious liberty groups oppose federal school voucher plan

And it would provide tax cuts to the wealthy by enabling them to make contributions to organizations established to underwrite private K-12 education, according to religious groups including Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Alliance of Baptists, Interfaith Alliance and Pastors for Children, who warned leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee in a May 12 letter.