#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.
Their View: Will you fund my grandkid’s private education?
Today, that promise is under coordinated attack by the Ohio governor, the attorney general, and the speaker of the Ohio House. Their weapon of choice? School vouchers under the cover of the EdChoice and EdChoice Expansion programs.
Double Take — Sisco: Voucher programs damaging public schools
Peter Greene, a high school teacher from Pennsylvania, summed up the law this way: “There is not a speck of this bill aimed at the issue of making sure that young humans get a decent education.”
Stop the Grift: Florida’s School Vouchers Are Scamming Taxpayers and Sabotaging Democracy
And that’s precisely why the current voucher experiment—built on selective enrollment, hidden finances, and zero public oversight—is the opposite: it fractures the common schoolhouse, privatizes accountability, and poses a real threat to the democratic fabric that public education holds together.
Researchers release yet another damning report on NC’s school voucher program
As a damning new report from the group Public Schools First highlights, the excuse that vouchers were all about helping poor kids has long been abandoned – along with all income limits on the program — and today vouchers are fully exposed for what they always were: a scheme to undermine public education and have taxpayers fund private schools.
Wellborn: How Opportunity Scholarships impact public school funding
Transylvania County taxpayers are funding private school education for affluent families in the thriving urban centers of North Carolina. Education funding is being diverted from traditional public schools, like Transylvania County Schools. These are your tax dollars at work.
Historic Federal Tax Shift Benefits Wealthiest, Grows Deficit and Exacerbates Georgia’s Rural Challenges
Enacts an uncapped federal private school voucher tax credit, funneling public funds into private schools, and likely to cost at least $3 billion per year[6]
Florida’s school voucher surge draws fire from public education advocates
As Florida’s new state budget channels more money toward private and charter schools, public school advocates are sounding the alarm about the future of public education — warning that already-strained classrooms could suffer further setbacks.
Senate Parliamentarian Rejects School Vouchers in Big Beautiful Bill as Violation of Byrd Rule
Matt Barnum and Richard Rubin begin: “Republicans’ tax-and-spending megabill would give the school-choice movement a major, long-sought victory—and deliver an unusually generous tax break to wealthy taxpayers. The bill includes a new way for taxpayers—whether they are parents or not—to direct tax dollars to private school scholarships (vouchers) instead of the Treasury.” They continue: “There is an extra twist: It would deliver virtually risk-free profits to some savvy investors.”
ESA families buy high-end kitchen appliances while public school raises funds for home economics classes
12News uncovers the state’s empowerment scholarship program bought premium KitchenAid items like 66 high-end mixers that cost $300 to $849 each.
Federal voucher plan in Trump megabill is big win for school choice, but critics see costly handout and threat to public education
Stadler called the new tax credit a “much more aggressive form of the Trump administration using federal legislation” to shift funds away from public schools.
Newly enacted national school voucher program undermines ‘both public schools and religious freedom’
The national school voucher program in the new law, disguised as a tax credit scheme, offers dollar-for-dollar tax credits in exchange for contributions to nonprofit entities that provide tuition scholarships to students who attend private schools, including religious schools. For the first time in our nation’s history, under this system, taxpayers will be subsidizing religious school tuition with federal tax dollars.
Public Education at a Crossroads: Vouchers, Cuts, and the Fight Ahead
The so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” is really a billionaire tax scam — a massive giveaway to the ultra-wealthy at the expense of working families. While the president and congressional leaders try to sell it as relief, the truth is this bill will make life harder for millions of Americans.
Indiana spends $497 million on private school vouchers. Report shows who gets the money
The largest year-over-year increase in the number of households using the vouchers, in terms of income, was among those with incomes of $200,000 or more, at a 1.65% increase. The largest year-over-year decrease came from the $50,000-$100,0000 income range at a 1.65% decrease.
Trump’s Spending Bill Makes Devastating Cuts Across K-12, Higher Education
Creating a new tax credit refund that benefits private school donors who pay for tuition vouchers, potentially reducing state and federal funding for public schools that experience a decline in student enrollment
Trump’s Budget Bill: An Attack on Public Schools, Working Families, and Immigrants
The budget reconciliation bill President Trump just signed is a betrayal to vulnerable students and public schools—and largely at odds with what most people want.