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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.
Education groups warn of school voucher push in South Dakota
“In South Dakota, we’ve had school choice, and parents can home school. They can go to a private school, they can go to a public school. All great choices. The challenge we see with vouchers is we only have so much money in South Dakota to fund the K-12 system we have,” Monson said.
NC GOP lawmakers let down disabled students by funding private school vouchers | Opinion
The money allocated to private-school vouchers should have gone to filling positions needed to take care of disabled students where the vast majority get their education — North Carolina public schools.
Understanding the reality of school vouchers
Instead of everyone in a community relying on the same police and fire departments, people would instead choose private vendors and receive a check from the government to partially underwrite the cost.
Public dollars diverted to private ‘segregation academies’
The report identifies 39 of these private schools, 20 of which have student bodies at least 85% white. ProPublica reported that some were at least 30% whiter than the population in their counties.
Christian nationalists are gearing up to reshape public education in America
The U.S. was founded in part on freedom of religion. Now, that principle is being directly threatened by far-right forces that have found a home in Trump’s GOP.
Tennessee must see through Gov. Bill Lee’s new try at expanding school vouchers | Opinion
Vouchers are the school’s choice, not school choice. Vouchers allow discrimination on special needs kids and any family who doesn’t fit the school’s “values.”
The Fiscal Impacts of Expanded Voucher Programs and Charter-School Growth on Public Schools: Recommendations for Sustaining Adequate and Equitable School Finance Systems
Research shows these shifts harm traditional public school financing. To address this, policymakers must ensure equitable funding for public schools and hold charter and private schools to the same standards as public ones.
Dr. Lauren Fox: Private school vouchers are unpopular, failed policy
71 percent of North Carolinians think increasing funding for traditional K-12 schools will do more to improve education than vouchers.
Voters say no to school vouchers
Three ballot initiatives on school choice failed on Election Day, raising questions about what the future will hold for supporters of public funding for private education.
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-style programs.
‘A stunning public rebuke’: When voters had the choice, they rejected private school vouchers
On Election Day, voters in Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska squarely rejected private school choice ballot measures, demonstrating how much voters of all stripes oppose the use of taxpayer dollars to fund private school tuition.
Despite Trump’s win, school vouchers again rejected by majorities of U.S. voters
Expansions of school vouchers, despite backing from wealthy conservatives, have never won when put to voters. Instead, they lose by margins not often seen in such a polarized country.
In Multiple States, Voters Firmly Rejected School Voucher Programs
But despite Trump’s big win in the presidential race, vouchers were again soundly rejected by significant majorities of Americans.
How privatization efforts are resurrecting school segregation
Under former President Donald Trump’s administration, an endgame for conservative education policy became clear: the full privatization of public education.
Ohio spent nearly $970 million on private school vouchers last year
Among its five private school scholarships, the state spent $962,022,783.24 sending more than 150,000 students to private schools. More than 88,000 of them were under the EdChoice-Expansion scholarship program, which has no income requirements for Ohioans to qualify.
