#SCHOOLVOUCHERSCAMS
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.
Mother of special needs child on challenges with obtaining paperwork for $30K Texas school voucher
Extended interview: CBS Texas lead education reporter Lacey Beasley spoke with Fort Worth mother Lindsey Garner. She worries that documentation of her son’s special needs will not be ready by the March 17 deadline to apply for Texas private school vouchers, despite starting the process in October.
Iowa State Auditor says delays in receiving ESA information affected thoroughness of his audit
Iowa State Auditor says delays in receiving ESA information affected thoroughness of his audit
330 Ohio school districts rally against revised bill targeting EdChoice funding
330 Ohio school districts rally against revised bill targeting EdChoice funding
A Subsidy For the Few: Vouchers Leaving Public Schools, Students Behind
Sold as a way for to help students in underresourced schools, voucher programs now disproportionately benefit affluent families with children already enrolled in private schools.
Texas voucher program sparks concerns surrounding its impact on public education
Concerns over funding, accountability and how fair the program is
Public school advocacy groups urge Gov. JB Pritzker to opt out of federal voucher program
Public school advocacy groups urge Gov. JB Pritzker to opt out of federal voucher program
No choice about it: vouchers hurt public schools and fund religion
The Freedom From Religion Foundation cautions that the almost unrestrained expansion of so-called school choice programs continues to overwhelmingly divert public education dollars into private, mostly religious, schools while undermining our public school system.
Arizona voucher program cited as cautionary tale during school choice hearing
Garcia described her state’s voucher program as a “bloated mess costing three times more than it was projected” and said vouchers “often only offer the illusion of choice.”
Trump Voucher Scheme Makes Education Worse
Subsidize private education for the rich. School vouchers, on average, cover just 39% of middle school private school tuition across the sampled states. Even with a private school voucher, tuition prices are often out of reach for working-class families, meaning that the vouchers function as a subsidy to the rich who can already afford to pay for private education.
Anybody have ‘school segregation’ on their 2026 New Hampshire bingo card?
What she’s asking for is a school system that isolates half of all children from information that challenges a particular world view. She seems to be expressing a desire for a curriculum that erases the discomfort and inconvenience of lessons on, say, climate change, communicable diseases, human sexuality, slavery, genocide, and poverty, for example, in favor of comfortable affirmations of a warped patriotism that subjugates truth itself.
Florida’s School Voucher Program Is in the Hot Seat Again
Among other problems, between $1 million and $2 million dollars went to scammers who created fraudulent accounts for fictitious students in order to receive funds.
Attorneys for Vouchers Hurt Ohio file reply brief in EdChoice lawsuit
The Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding is working with Vouchers Hurt Ohio, a growing coalition of more than 325 public school districts that have come together to sue the state over the unconstitutional and harmful private school voucher program.
Education tax credits just launched. Idaho Democrats want to put them on ice
But the program lacks oversight measures, especially for the advance payments it offers, said Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintrow and House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel in a Monday letter to the Idaho State Tax Commission, which administers the program.
Florida audit reveals school voucher system cost millions
A state audit found serious problems in Florida’s school voucher system, uncovering tracking failures that cost public school districts millions of dollars and could have affected families across the state.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says Republicans should be ‘embarrassed’ by ESA program costs
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs spoke out against the state’s school voucher program twice this week, saying Republicans should be “embarrassed” by the waste of taxpayer dollars.