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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.
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.”
Letter: Learn about impact of education vouchers
This dynamic disproportionately affects working- and middle-class residents while offering public subsidies with limited transparency or accountability. Strong public schools are a cornerstone of New Hampshire’s communities, workforce and property values. Weakening them ultimately harms everyone, not just families with children currently in school.
School voucher town hall in Palestine ends with state representatives booed off stage
A school voucher town hall meeting abruptly ended when the audience’s shouts of dissent sent Rep. Cody Harris walking off the stage.
Reverse Course on Vouchers and Tax Cuts to Protect Idaho’s Budget—and Idaho’s Future
Idaho’s leaders are facing difficult decisions as the state enters a period of tightening budgets and slowing revenue. But the cause of our financial strain isn’t mysterious, and the solution isn’t either. For years, lawmakers have pursued aggressive tax cuts and costly voucher-style programs, draining hundreds of millions from the state’s treasury. Now, as essential services face cuts and Idaho families shoulder the consequences, it’s time to reverse course.
State Rep. Alexander, JC Schools officials slam voucher expansion
Alexander, who voted against the bill, said she’s concerned about state lawmakers potentially expanding the program in the upcoming General Assembly without at least making more data available. “I think that would be a crying shame until we know exactly who got those vouchers to begin with,” Alexander said. “Because from my understanding, just from people I’ve talked with, the people that got them didn’t need them.”
States Should Reject Federal School Voucher Scheme in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Taking public resources from already underfunded public schools and diverting them to private education is harmful for nearly 90 percent of American students.
10 years since initiative 42; the continued fight against school vouchers
Although Initiative 42 failed (which some activists have attributed to legislators’ tinkering resulting in confusing wording on the ballot), it was a significant turning point in organizing in Mississippi, bringing together Republicans, Democrats and independents and fostering a grassroots movement that shifted their focus to anti-privatization efforts.
$1 billion in voucher spending raises new budget pressures for Arizona schools
“The Republican expansion of government to universal ESA vouchers has put our state’s financial security at risk, and our students at risk without any safeguards,” said Sen. Mitzi Epstein, D-Tempe in a news release advocating changes to the program’s oversight and fiscal controls.
Opinion: Take note, Gov. Polis: Coloradans have repeatedly said no to school vouchers
New federal program is a devil’s bargain and must not override the will of our people
Donald’s Dangerous Vouchers
These federal vouchers divert public funds to private education uses, with all the attendant harms, and they must be recognized as such, even if it may be possible to use the voucher money for public school students.
States Should Reject Federal School Voucher Scheme
My colleagues and I at the Education Law Center strongly caution states against opting in to this scheme. Through our work directing the Public Funds Public Schools campaign, we conduct and compile research about the various types of private education vouchers, bring and join lawsuits about these programs in states around the country, and advocate for public funding to support public education.