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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.
Florida’s School Voucher Program Is in the Hot Seat Again
Among other problems, between $1 million and $2 million dollars went to scammers who created fraudulent accounts for fictitious students in order to receive funds.
Attorneys for Vouchers Hurt Ohio file reply brief in EdChoice lawsuit
The Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding is working with Vouchers Hurt Ohio, a growing coalition of more than 325 public school districts that have come together to sue the state over the unconstitutional and harmful private school voucher program.
Education tax credits just launched. Idaho Democrats want to put them on ice
But the program lacks oversight measures, especially for the advance payments it offers, said Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintrow and House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel in a Monday letter to the Idaho State Tax Commission, which administers the program.
Florida audit reveals school voucher system cost millions
A state audit found serious problems in Florida’s school voucher system, uncovering tracking failures that cost public school districts millions of dollars and could have affected families across the state.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says Republicans should be ‘embarrassed’ by ESA program costs
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs spoke out against the state’s school voucher program twice this week, saying Republicans should be “embarrassed” by the waste of taxpayer dollars.
Experts: Parents could incur additional costs if approved for Texas private school voucher program
“Most, if not all of those seats, especially at the most competitive private schools, will be taken by those families with the means, those families already enrolling their children in private schools,” he said.
Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate
The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.
Ohio’s universal private school voucher program is now under a legal microscope
There is no “legitimate government interest” in the state funding private education, said the brief filed in Ohio’s 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. It also said the state underfunds public schools, which forces districts to impose local taxes to make up the difference.
New study details impact of school vouchers in Arizona
And most of those students come from largely affluent districts and well-to-do families who could have sent their kids to private school without the tuition relief provided by ESAs, or school vouchers, the study by the RAND Corp. concluded.
Vouchers, patriotism and prayer: The Trump Administration’s plan to remake public education
ProPublica reporters Jennifer Smith Richards and Megan O’Matz spent months reporting and reviewing dozens of hours of video to understand the ideals and ambitions of those pulling the levers of power in federal education policy. They found a concerted push to shrink public school systems by steering taxpayer dollars to private, religious and charter schools, as well as options like homeschooling. The Education Department did not respond to a detailed list of questions from ProPublica.
Mississippians Urge State Legislature to Oppose School Choice
Mississippians Urge State Legislature to Oppose School Choice
As lawmakers fix Florida’s school voucher system, educators, students cope with financial fallout
After Juliet Sanomi came to the realization that traditional public school wasn’t the right setting for her son, who has autism, she decided to take matters into her own hands. She started a school where he and others like him would thrive.
DataWatch: Nearly half of Wisconsin private school students receive a taxpayer-funded voucher
Flash forward to last school year: Nearly half (46%) of all private school students in Wisconsin received vouchers across the state’s four programs. Taxpayers this school year will spend more than $700 million to defray tuition costs for about 60,000 students. Almost all (about 96%) attend religiously affiliated schools.
Florida’s school choice headache: Millions of unused dollars
The massive sum is one of several revelations recently unearthed by shocking state audits, issues lawmakers are attempting to rectify in 2026.
Most Tennessee students don’t use ESA vouchers to exit low-performing public schools: comptroller
“Most schools that students are leaving to participate in the ESA program are neither reward nor priority schools, which would indicate their performance is neither among the highest or lowest of public schools in the state,” the comptroller’s report states. “When considering schools that have received state and federal designations, more ESA students are leaving reward schools than priority schools.”