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.

08/30/2024 - Arizona opinion: Voucher program is failing state’s public-school students

Arizona’s ESA (Empowerment Scholarship Account) program, has been rightfully criticized for a number of reasons as a cautionary tale, leading to more state budget cuts as the program cost in 2023 ballooned to almost 1,400% higher than projected.

08/30/2024 - School Choice: The Public Funding Fight With little transparency or oversight, billions of dollars flow to private, religious schools

Billions of dollars are being diverted to private and religious schools, with Republicans and conservative groups seeking to expand “universal school choice” as critics warn of damage to public schools.

08/29/2024 - The True Meaning of School Vouchers

In a report on Florida’s experiment with full-on school privatization by way of charter schools and vouchers, Peter Greene notes that the endgame for those supporting “school choice” is getting the government completely out of the “education business.”

08/28/2024 - School vouchers are conservative billionaires’ Trojan horse

Cowen said school privatization has become the mission of a conservative cabal that has effectively masterminded “a political capture of the judiciary, the federal regulatory apparatus, and state lawmaking processes.”

08/26/2024 - A warning for NC: School vouchers are harming students academically across the US | Opinion

Supporters of school vouchers – public dollars used to fund private school tuition – say they give parents an opportunity to improve their child’s education. But research shows the opposite is happening. Students in many schools subsidized by vouchers are losing ground academically.

08/26/2024 - Conservative billionaires use money and influence to push school vouchers

Education researcher Josh Cowen understands the passage of voucher bills in states like Georgia and the national rollback of reproductive freedom are not the same thing. “But they are driven by the same people,” said Cowen. “What puts these two things together is their attempt to make America a Christian nationalist state.”

08/22/2024 - Private School Vouchers in North Carolina: The Math Doesn’t Add Up

With the new school year ramping up in North Carolina, Republican lawmakers remain committed to funneling hundreds of millions more taxpayer dollars into vouchers for unaccountable, unregulated private schools.

08/22/2024 - Alarming Outcomes from Private School Voucher Expansions in Other States Provide Cautionary Tale for North Carolina

Research surrounding private school vouchers in Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Arizona and Washington, D.C. shows that voucher programs put students and communities at risk

08/22/2024 - School choice and a history of segregation collide as one Florida county shutters its rural school

But the Madison County School District’s decision to do so has exposed tensions around race in a community where for years some white families have resisted integrating public schools.

08/21/2024 - Cold numbers could reduce school voucher fever

Idaho has 120 private schools and 41,000 K-12 students that are not enrolled in public schools. At $5,000 a pop for these students alone, it would cost the state $205 million a year.

08/21/2024 - Florida’s private school vouchers soar, creating concern over impact on public schools

“I see vouchers as a way to divide people against each other,” said Zequiera, who believes the school choice trends are increasingly segregating students along race and class lines, as many families cannot afford private schools even with the help of vouchers.

08/20/2024 - Were school voucher programs used to evade integration after Brown v. Board of Education?

Several Southern states established school voucher programs to evade integration in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that deemed race-based segregation in public schools unconstitutional.