#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.
School voucher sticker shock: sold to Arizona taxpayers for $33 million with an $800 million cost
If voucher programs are meant to create competition in the system, I have to ask: who wants losers in education? Public school contestants may have to shuffle off the Price is Right stage while their private school competition wins yet another trip to Hawaii. To me, that price is wrong.
Letter: School vouchers undermine public education
Janet Midthun writes, “For those North Dakotans that live in rural communities, the question of “school choice” is moot – who would send their kid 100 miles to the closest private school?”
Arkansas school voucher money would be better spent on public schools
Data shows student learning is harmed by large-scale funding transfer to private schools
Vouchers ‘a bad idea’ for North Dakota
So-called educational vouchers are schemes that use public dollars to pay private school parents for their children’s private school tuition. They are a bad idea for North Dakota.
Education for Sale: How the ECCA Empowers Corporations and Weakens Public Schools
This would effectively create a national framework for “school choice” that bypasses state-level decisions, opening the door for a significant reallocation of federal funds towards private education.
Letter | End the school voucher scam
We must call out any elected official who supports vouchers and school choice. You can easily access information through DPI on how much your local public school is paying out in private school tuition and how much they are being reimbursed for their special education costs.
Don’t get distracted by universal vouchers
But I caution you to not be distracted by this effort. Indiana essentially already has universal vouchers, and this final step is actually very small. There are other education policies that do deserve your attention, though.
School vouchers: A budget-busting bait and switch
Here’s the fallacy of all of that: The vast majority of folks claiming these publicly funded vouchers have not made a new choice. They chose private or homeschool long before LEARNS was passed.
School Choice Is Not What It Sounds Like
The movement’s ultimate objective is to put an end to public responsibility for education entirely.
Idaho’s voucher scheme: Rural kids could suffer the brunt of education privatization | Opinion
If the Idaho Legislature succeeds in pushing through a school voucher scheme this session, which starts next week, rural kids stand to be the ones who lose out the most.
2 indicted for alleged use of ‘ghost’ children to defraud Arizona’s ESA program
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says Johnny Lee Bowers and Ashley Meredith Hewitt (a.k.a. Ashley Hopkins) were indicted by a state grand jury after they reportedly submitted applications to the ESA program for dozens of children. Of the 50 applications, the AG’s office says 43 were fictitious “ghost” children.
TCAP scores show Tenn. ESA schools underperforming in proficiency to public schools
As Tennessee Governor Bill Lee pushes his school voucher program, newly released standardized test scores from the pilot program show the schools are still underperforming compared to public schools.
‘School choice’ would force bad budget choices on the state and school districts
Let’s be clear. This is a school voucher program that diverts public dollars to private schools or alternative education programs with little transparency or accountability to taxpayers.
Governor Lee Partners With “Fake Conservative Group” To Push School Vouchers
AFC founder, former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, is also one of the top donors to the related PAC, along with husband Dick DeVos, and billionaire Jeff Yass. Lee has connections with the group such as Gillum Ferguson, political strategist for AFC. Ferguson served as press secretary to Lee during the pandemic.
Just How Bad Is the ‘Educational Choice’ Bill in Congress that Trump Is Expected to Support?
Tax credit voucher schemes usually include a volume cap, which limits how large a hole the program will be allowed to blow in the government’s budget. ECCA sets a volume cap of $5 billion. That is $5 billion fewer dollars collected by the federal government—hardly a help with Trump’s promised belt-tightening.
