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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. 

03/11/2025

Republican plan for ‘school choice’ is just a scheme for private school vouchers

The Educational Choice for Children Act would benefit private and religious schools and higher-income families.

03/11/2025

How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in Texas

The Legislature’s current proposals put a handful of private contractors in the driver’s seat. Other states have already seen problems.

03/07/2025

West Texas legislator and former teacher express opposition to private school vouchers as debate continues over bill

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has made passing a bill that would fund a school voucher program a priority in recent years, but educators and legislators say it would have extreme consequences for public schools.

03/04/2025

Why Taking a Stand Against Texas Private School Vouchers is so Important

Vouchers in the Lone Star State are starting to feel a bit inevitable, but that doesn’t mean we should go quietly

03/03/2025

How many people asked Gov. Little to veto Idaho school choice? Here are the latest numbers

This weekend, Little’s office issued its totals, showing that among more than 37,000 residents, over 86% asked that the governor veto the bill. Just over 5,000 calls and emails sided with Little signing it into law, according to Joan Varsek, Little’s spokesperson.

02/26/2025

Public schools are under attack by Texas and national leaders | Opinion

Trump’s cruel assault on federally funded education and health care programs will result in disastrous long-term consequences impacting everyone in public education, particularly low-income children, kids with disabilities and first-generation college students.

02/25/2025

Parents, teachers demanding state lawmakers to repeal school vouchers in Georgia

Parents, teachers demanding state lawmakers to repeal school vouchers in Georgia

02/25/2025

Could School Vouchers Turn Off The Friday Night Lights?

The Texas High School Coaches Association sent a letter to members earlier this month urging them to call their state congress members and oppose the voucher system currently established in Senate Bill 2.

02/21/2025

Trump order boosts school choice, but there’s little evidence vouchers lead to smarter students or better educational outcomes

We are professors who focus on education law, with special interests in educational equity and school choice programs. While proponents of school choice claim it leads to academic gains, we don’t see much evidence to support this view – but we do see the negative impact they sometimes have on public schools.

02/20/2025

Texas And The Conservative Pushback On School Vouchers

That desire for accountability has sometimes put Republicans among the opponents of taxpayer-funded school vouchers. South Dakota Republicans just killed two bills intended to create expanded school voucher systems.

02/20/2025

Private school vouchers and the illusion of choice

Despite being marketed as a “universal” school choice program, SB 2 is not about school choice. It’s about the SCHOOL’S choice.

02/18/2025

Texas Teachers Association: Vouchers will financially damage public schools | Opinion

Several states with existing voucher programs have within a few years dramatically increased tax funding for private schools while reducing appropriations for public education. We believe something similar will happen in Texas,

02/18/2025

Voters Reject Vouchers—Again!

What the defeat of private school choice measures in three states signals for the movement

02/18/2025

Letter: School voucher programs are a scam

They take money from public schools and send it to private schools, which can promote any ideology they want and reject students for any reason.

02/17/2025

Millions flow to wealthy families, pricey private schools under Florida’s voucher program

But at this school in the heart of one of Central Florida’s wealthiest communities, about 98 percent of students used taxpayer-funded scholarships worth roughly $8,000 to help pay tuition last year. Only three percent of St. Margaret Mary’s students got that state financial aid just one year earlier.