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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.
‘A colossal mistake’: Abilene ISD superintendent criticizes Texas’ new education voucher law
Kuhn claims the new education savings account program threatens to weaken the state’s public school system by diverting funds to private institutions and undermining decades of public education policy.
Trump And Republicans Want Taxpayers To Fund Their Pet Project: Private Schools – OpEd
A proposal for a nationwide federally supported school voucher program is just another of President Trump’s schemes to give advantages to the rich at the expense of the rest of us.
Report shows most NC voucher recipients already attended private school — here’s why that matters
Reading into the numbers a little, it becomes clear that upwards of about 90% of Opportunity Scholarship recipients this school year already attended a private school when they applied for a voucher.
Most new voucher recipients didn’t come from an NC public school, new data shows
It’s unclear whether the students who didn’t attend a public school last year attended a private school or homeschool or were newcomers to the state.
An Explosive Voucher Scheme
According to Sam Stockard at the Tennessee Lookout, the program is slated to cost about $400 million next year and escalate to $1.1 billion in five years. Democratic Rep. John Ray Clemmons says, calling Gov. Lee’s program “a scam that will harm students, de-fund public education, and expedite our state’s impending budget crisis.”
Public Schools Are Essential for Education Justice and a Thriving Democracy
Understanding why public schools matter as a common good for our communities and nation is vital to countering efforts — such as the push for school vouchers — to undermine the public education system.
NEWS: Investigation Reveals That State-Funded School Vouchers Were Used for Over 8,400 Disney, Universal, and SeaWorld Tickets
A recent look into taxpayer-funded scholarships revealed how many theme park tickets were purchased with education vouchers.
Rep. Alexis Simpson: Neglecting public schools and local taxpayers to fund private education
While communities are scraping together every last local property tax dollar to keep public schools running, the state is already pouring tens of millions into a school voucher program to pay for private and religious schools with virtually no oversight — even subsidizing private ski passes, music lessons, and undisclosed Amazon and Walmart purchases.
The GOP House Budget Bill Also Takes Aim at Public Education with Its Private School Voucher Scheme
Buried within the bill is language that would create federal education private school vouchers and provide a tax dodge for the wealthy while eroding the public school system in favor of taxpayer-subsidized discrimination.
Federal Voucher System — Like Florida’s — Would Divert Funding to Private Schools and Home-Schoolers
Florida has lessons to offer about vouchers. Congress should learn from the state as the cautionary tale that it is and act to preserve and support public education for all students by rejecting the House’s proposal.
The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
Despite mounting evidence that such programs are both ineffective and unpopular, school choice remains a cornerstone of the MAGA agenda.
‘Big beautiful bill’ creates school voucher program that benefits the rich
The national school voucher program included in a bill passed by the U.S. House will make the rich richer and further marginalize students based on religious, economic and disability status, panelists said during a recent town hall meeting.
Private school choice opponents say tax plan harms public schools
“It’s taking dollars away from programs that would strengthen all schools, expand access to early childhood, make sure that our kids have access to mental health counselors, to other mental health supports — resources our students need that you are not going to get from the private marketplace,” Forte said.
The 12News I-Team looked into which zip codes are receiving the most school vouchers. Here’s what the data showed.
I-Team investigation: Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts were supposed to level the educational playing field — they have primarily only helped the rich.
Opinion | Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding unaccountable private schools
As Congress considers a federal voucher scheme as part of its budget reconciliation package, we should carefully reflect on whether Wisconsin’s sweeping voucher programs have benefited students. And the simple, honest answer is that they have not.