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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.
Blackburn, Rose Back Voucher Scheme
Senator Marsha Blackburn and U.S. Rep. John Rose, both Republican candidates for Tennessee Governor, back the state’s new school voucher scheme.
Three waves of school vouchers: A history of expansion and exclusion
Past voucher reforms have been used to perpetuate exclusion and segregation, while recent waves have expanded the programs rapidly without much evidence of academic effectiveness.
Is voucher expansion justified?
Yet, there is absolutely no evidence that the plan, which has previously been implemented in a few counties over the last few years, is actually producing any such results. Shouldn’t we see some success before we “ double down“?
Tennessee built a billion-dollar voucher program designed not to know if it works.
When Tennessee’s legislature debated school vouchers in early 2025, supporters promised the program would help students escape failing public schools while preserving the independence of private education. They looked voters in the eye and said this was about educational opportunity for struggling students. The reality emerging from the state’s Education Freedom Act tells a different story altogether, one that legislators knew before they cast their votes.
Ohio spent more than a billion dollars on private school vouchers in fiscal year 2025
The total amount for Ohio’s five private school voucher programs was $1.09 billion, according to data from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. Nearly half of the money ($492.8 million) was from Education Choice Expansion vouchers.
DPI data shows general aid decreases for public school districts, $350M diverted to voucher schools
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released its 2025-26 general school aid data this week, showing that 71% of public school districts will receive less general school aid this year, while over $350 million in general aid will be diverted to voucher schools.
Arkansas’ taxpayer-funded student accounts went primarily to religious schools in spring 2025, officials say
Roughly 81% of the private schools that received more than $100,000 in Educational Freedom Account funds in the spring 2025 semester were religiously affiliated, according to researchers and state officials.
How the Colorado Schools Fund is setting up the case for vouchers
On its surface, the initiative looks like another investment in education innovation. But behind its messaging is a decades-long campaign by powerful business and political elites to weaken traditional public schools and replace them with a mix of charter schools, microschools, and, eventually, private school vouchers.
Missouri religious schools reap nearly all the benefit of state-funded school vouchers
“We are simply subsidizing, with tax dollars, parents who would already choose to send their kids to a private school,” state Sen. Maggie Nurrenbern, a Kansas City Democrat, told The Independent. “And now we are using public dollars to pay for schools that are not transparent whatsoever in choosing who to educate and who not.”
Out-of-staters misrepresent Arkansas voucher data to champion school privatization
There are several problems with the article’s argument, but let’s start with the obvious: Arkansas families are not flocking en masse to public education alternatives.
LETTERS: Appleton reader says vouchers for private schools deprive public schools
I support families having the choice to attend private and religious schools. What I do not support is the rest of the district making sacrifices to fund the religious choices of a few.
The Early Word: Wealthier families get school vouchers; Guard arrives today
The Early Word: Wealthier families get school vouchers; Guard arrives today
South Bend forum speakers see charter schools and vouchers as threats to public education
“We lose our democracy,” said Oletha Jones, education chair for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People South Bend (NAACP), at the “Here Come the Privatizers!” community forum, laying out what she saw as the stakes of allowing public education to fail.
Critics of Tennessee’s school voucher program worry that it leaves kids with disabilities behind
“What we know is that a private school, unlike a public school, doesn’t have to admit a student with a disability,” she told WPLN News. “So right off the bat, we have a problem in terms of access.”
School Vouchers Cost States Like Florida a Fortune. They Don’t Improve Education, Either.
There’s nothing ‘conservative’ about giving away billions in tax dollars without accountability.