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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. 

06/09/2025

‘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.

06/06/2025

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.

06/06/2025

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.

06/04/2025

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.

06/03/2025

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.”

06/03/2025

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.

06/02/2025

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.

06/02/2025

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.

06/01/2025

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.

05/30/2025

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.

05/29/2025

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.

05/28/2025

‘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.

05/28/2025

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.

05/27/2025

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.

05/27/2025

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.