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#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. 

02/27/2026

School vouchers fraudulently bought millions of dollars in gift cards and condoms: report

School vouchers fraudulently bought millions of dollars in gift cards and condoms: report

02/26/2026

School choice costs Huntsville, Madison, Madison County schools $100 million, leaders say

School choice costs Huntsville, Madison, Madison County schools $100 million, leaders say

02/24/2026

Waste Watch: 123,000 apply for school vouchers so far, SETX critic calls it ‘Ponzi scheme’

Waste Watch: 123,000 apply for school vouchers so far, SETX critic calls it ‘Ponzi scheme’

02/24/2026

Higher ed member’s research shows vouchers harm kids

Higher ed member’s research shows vouchers harm kids

02/23/2026

Voucher supporters say Empowerment Scholarship fraud is 1%. New records peg misspending closer to 20%.

Voucher supporters say Empowerment Scholarship fraud is 1%. New records peg misspending closer to 20%.

02/20/2026

Mother of special needs child on challenges with obtaining paperwork for $30K Texas school voucher

Extended interview: CBS Texas lead education reporter Lacey Beasley spoke with Fort Worth mother Lindsey Garner. She worries that documentation of her son’s special needs will not be ready by the March 17 deadline to apply for Texas private school vouchers, despite starting the process in October.

02/18/2026

Iowa State Auditor says delays in receiving ESA information affected thoroughness of his audit

Iowa State Auditor says delays in receiving ESA information affected thoroughness of his audit

02/17/2026

330 Ohio school districts rally against revised bill targeting EdChoice funding

330 Ohio school districts rally against revised bill targeting EdChoice funding

02/10/2026

A Subsidy For the Few: Vouchers Leaving Public Schools, Students Behind

Sold as a way for to help students in underresourced schools, voucher programs now disproportionately benefit affluent families with children already enrolled in private schools.

02/06/2026

Texas voucher program sparks concerns surrounding its impact on public education

Concerns over funding, accountability and how fair the program is

01/30/2026

Public school advocacy groups urge Gov. JB Pritzker to opt out of federal voucher program

Public school advocacy groups urge Gov. JB Pritzker to opt out of federal voucher program

01/30/2026

No choice about it: vouchers hurt public schools and fund religion

The Freedom From Religion Foundation cautions that the almost unrestrained expansion of so-called school choice programs continues to overwhelmingly divert public education dollars into private, mostly religious, schools while undermining our public school system.

01/30/2026

Arizona voucher program cited as cautionary tale during school choice hearing

Garcia described her state’s voucher program as a “bloated mess costing three times more than it was projected” and said vouchers “often only offer the illusion of choice.”

01/30/2026

Trump Voucher Scheme Makes Education Worse

Subsidize private education for the rich. School vouchers, on average, cover just 39% of middle school private school tuition across the sampled states. Even with a private school voucher, tuition prices are often out of reach for working-class families, meaning that the vouchers function as a subsidy to the rich who can already afford to pay for private education.

01/22/2026

Anybody have ‘school segregation’ on their 2026 New Hampshire bingo card?

What she’s asking for is a school system that isolates half of all children from information that challenges a particular world view. She seems to be expressing a desire for a curriculum that erases the discomfort and inconvenience of lessons on, say, climate change, communicable diseases, human sexuality, slavery, genocide, and poverty, for example, in favor of comfortable affirmations of a warped patriotism that subjugates truth itself.