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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. 

09/30/2025

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission continues Christian Nationalist assault on public education

Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser issued the following statement in response to today’s Religious Liberty Commission hearing on religious freedom in public education:

09/29/2025

Why Ohioans said private schools shouldn’t be funded with our money 174 years ago | Opinion

After nearly two centuries, Ohioans could well revisit a historic question: Should public funds be spent to support private schools?

09/27/2025

More Tennessee school voucher data arrives after ongoing requests for transparency

The department isn’t tracking enrollment data, but a state review found that two-thirds of the families expected to get these funds are already enrolled in private schools.

09/27/2025

Editorial: Legislature rewrote SC voucher law, but didn’t close the fraud loophole

It took until March for the problem to get any public attention, but that was still plenty of time for the Legislature to add some protections when it rewrote the voucher law and sent to the governor in May. It didn’t.

09/26/2025

More questions than answers in voucher rollout

Gov. Bill Lee’s administration is touting the first year of its new Education Freedom Scholarship program as a resounding success, claiming all 20,000 available vouchers (valued at $7,300 each) were “reserved.” Yet the state’s own press release and subsequent data omissions have only fueled skepticism about who is really benefitting from Tennessee’s controversial universal voucher law.

09/25/2025

New study reveals massive problems with private school vouchers

The study, “The Effects of Universal School Vouchers on Private School Tuition and Enrollment: A National Analysis,” by Tulane University economists Douglas N. Harris and Gabriel Olivier, documents that rapidly expanding voucher programs around the country have mostly benefited wealthy families already sending their kids to private schools.

09/25/2025

A lawsuit has been filed to prevent subsidizing private/religious education

A lawsuit to prevent taxpayer money from being used to pay for private and religious education is now before the Idaho Supreme Court. A dedicated coalition of public school supporters filed the suit on September 17, asking the Court to declare Idaho’s voucher subsidy law unconstitutional.

09/23/2025

Concerns about transparency for Tennessee’s school vouchers

One lawmaker is considering suing the state if he can’t get more information about Tennessee’s new school voucher program.

09/22/2025

Trump’s war on America’s schools

The US president wants to destroy them, but most Americans still support them

09/19/2025

Idaho school voucher scheme faces challenge. It’s about time | Opinion

A coalition of public school advocates announced Wednesday that it is asking the Idaho Supreme Court to rule that a refundable tax credit for families who send their kids to private schools is a violation of the Idaho constitution’s education clause.

09/18/2025

Gov. Little, say no to federal private for-profit school vouchers

As a parent with children in Idaho’s public schools, I’m asking Governor Little to put our kids first by refusing to opt our state into the federal voucher tax credit hidden in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This program is not about choice but is about creating tax shelters for wealthy donors.

09/18/2025

Idaho groups sue to stop taxpayer money from going to private schools

Public school advocates Wednesday announced plans to sue Idaho over a new state law that directs money to private school tuition and fees.

09/16/2025

As Ohio politicians attack public schools over standards, private schools get tax money without them

Contrary to Ramaswamy’s assertion of bringing a radical revolution of standards, in fact it’s the private and religious schools that Ramaswamy and his fellow Republicans favor that mostly lack the kind of common standards that public schools must meet.

09/11/2025

How private school vouchers, charter schools are changing education in NC

Meanwhile, data reveals that a majority of voucher recipients were already attending private schools, challenging the perception that such programs predominantly support students shifting from public education.

09/11/2025

Arizona attorney general to sue superintendent over school voucher unchecked spending

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said Sunday that she planned to sue state Superintendent Tom Horne after an investigation revealed that millions of dollars in funding for the state’s school voucher program were misused.