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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.
Distant Dome: Education Freedom Account Expansion Will Be Costly
More than 80 percent of the students who have enrolled in the program were not in public schools when they were awarded EFA grants that were as high as $8,670 last school year when students received the base per-student aid, as well as differential aid by qualifying for free and reduced lunches and special education services, at the same rates as public schools.
Vouchers, Segregation, and the Moral Crisis in Florida’s Private Education
However, contrary to this claim, emerging data is beginning to reveal that FL HB1 2023, is disproportionately benefiting wealthier, white families, and consequently, facilitating the resegregation of Florida’s K-12 classrooms, some 70 years after the integration mandates of Brown v. Board of Education.3
Vouchers drain millions from public schools. Sarasota’s district floats an idea for change
“We can’t continue to have a death by a thousand cuts,” said county superintendent Terry Connor, who had to eliminate some support staff this year.
New and damning school voucher data confirm worst fears
In other words, the vast majority of voucher money is going to parents – most of them well-off – who never had any intention of sending their kids to public schools.
Shutting Down the Education Department Betrays the Mission of Public Schools
This idea is echoed by the current turn towards school vouchers, which atomize the learning experience by inviting, even pushing, families to exit the public system.
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.