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NewsIn a state with school vouchers for all, low-income families aren’t choosing to use them
Yet when it comes to lower-income families actually choosing to use vouchers here in the nation’s school choice capital, the numbers tell a very different story. A ProPublica analysis of Arizona Department of Education data for Maricopa County, where Phoenix is located, reveals that the poorer the ZIP code, the less often vouchers are being used. The richer, the more.
School Vouchers: An Expensive, Ineffective Idea | Opinion
This new constitutional amendment—which would open the door to a “school voucher” system like those in Florida, Ohio, Arizona, and Indiana—would deprive public education of the funding it needs and siphon it off for unaccountable private schools.
Arizona has school vouchers for all, but low-income families aren’t using them
Empowerment Scholarship Accounts are mostly used at private schools in wealthy neighborhoods
Are Vouchers Too Costly For Texas?
Rep. John Raney may have summed it up best when he said on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives during the voucher debate last year, “I believe in my heart that using taxpayer dollars to fund an entitlement program is not conservative, and it’s bad public policy.”
Private school vouchers opposed by more than half of Pa. voters, poll shows
Most Pennsylvania voters don’t support using taxpayer dollars to create a private school voucher program, a new Spotlight PA poll shows, an idea embraced by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro in a break with most members of his party.
Voucher program impacts public school funding
“Education funding is a pie, and we have 421 school [districts] that each get a slice of that pie,” said Reser Jaynes. “Now all of a sudden, I think we have 380 some voucher schools that are also getting a slice. So, if anyone tries to tell you that vouchers are not taking away from public education, they’re wrong.”
Private school vouchers a very expensive decision and bad for rural areas
Do not be fooled; there is a lot of misinformation and deception in the ads supporting this amendment. If passed with a “YES” vote, the legislature can write a blank check to private schools at the expense of public schools. In other words, no guardrails.
‘School Choice’ means choosing to fail
The advocates of the so-called “school choice” amendment may paint a lovely fantasy of improved educational benefits to students statewide, but that’s what it is: a fantasy. Because in real life, vouchers by any other name mean defunding public schools, budget shortfalls, rising private-school tuition, and deep cuts to essential programs.
Indiana: Most Private Schools Taking Vouchers Are Nearly All Tax-Subsidized
Most of the students who use vouchers were already enrolled in private schools. The same is true in every other state with vouchers. The voucher program creates an entitlement for parents who can already afford private school.
LEWIS: The pricey illusion of school vouchers in Texas
However, a closer look at how Texas funds its public schools — and the heavy mandates they must meet — reveals a system already struggling to support students adequately. Rather than improving public education, vouchers threaten to drain resources from schools that are already underfunded and overburdened.
A ‘religious separatist movement in American education’
Cowen writes that in the aftermath of the Brown decision, Friedman “spoke at Southern conferences paid for by conservative donors, where his lecture notes affirmed his published work by arguing that the ‘appropriate solution’ to tensions rising from integration mandates was a ‘privately operated school system with parent choice of schools.’”
Opinion: Kentucky can learn about the devastating impact of vouchers from Arizona, Florida
Rural students and low-income families have fewer quality choices, while richer suburban families use vouchers as a coupon for the private education they were already paying for.
Report: PA track record on private-school vouchers finds still no accountability
Polson said Pennsylvania’s voucher programs have no “meaningful educational or financial accountability,” so they really have no way of knowing if these programs operate as intended or are beneficial to low-income or moderate-income students.
Opinion: MPS suffers death by a thousand cuts while private, choice schools get millions
In 2023-24, Wisconsin taxpayers spent about $700 million on a second, separate, unaccountable system of education that we now know conclusively has not improved outcomes for children
Wake school district leaders slam vouchers: ‘Understand what they do to public schools’
“The choice to attend a private school shouldn’t come at the expense of weakening our public schools, which serve as a backbone for our community,” he said. “If public schools were adequately funded, maybe there wouldn’t be the same interest that we’ve seen in some private schools.”
