#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.
Kentucky Teacher of the Year speaks out against school choice amendment
“The issue is resources. And to take a community that needs resources and pump them into a community that doesn’t is antidemocratic and unjust in my view,” the Ballyshannon Middle School teacher told LINK nky.
‘The governor needs to tell people the truth’: Anderson County officials opposed to Tennessee school voucher program
“I just don’t see a need for vouchers. There are no private schools in Anderson County,” Tim Parrott, director of Anderson County Schools, said.
Editorial: Private school vouchers aren’t blank checks. Accountability is a must.
Accountability and achievement are not simply to the parents of students. All taxpayers, who pay the tab, have a right to know their money is in the hands of competent and qualified people to deliver the services intended – educating school children.
Republicans want to kill the Dept. of Ed and privatize education. Billionaires are helping them.
Calls by Donald Trump, the RNC and Project 2025 to “return education to the states” or expand private school vouchers could hurt queer, rural, disabled and BIPOC youth, according to a study released by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Arizona AG investigating school voucher program for illegal payments
On July 1, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Boughton sent a letter to John Ward, the director of the ESA program, informing him that the 2023-2024 ESA Parent Handbook indicates that the program might be providing illegal reimbursement for student expenses. The handbook was approved by the State Board of Education in April 2023.
Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher expansion gets lost in translation in rural Tennessee
Several hours after Lee’s Rotary speech, I got a glimpse into what one rural and very red Tennessee community thinks about his school vouchers expansion.
Rural Wisconsin school district calls on state to stop funding vouchers
A small rural Wisconsin school district that says property taxes have increased now that about a dozen students are attending a voucher school, and the school board is asking the state for relief.
Markward: Tax dollars should not support private schools
It took the Iowa governor three years to convince Republican legislators to support her educational savings account (voucher) initiative that is now the law of our land. I wonder if the governor and the others who leaped so quickly to embrace her plan have considered the implications of destroying a once-outstanding educational system.
What Does Project 2025 Actually Plan For Education?
Vouchers, vouchers, vouchers. Eliminate the federal Department of Education, and turn the money for Title I and IDEA into block grants that states can use for anything education-adjacent (but Heritage is hoping it will be for vouchers), with Title I ending within a decade.
Study: School vouchers could cost Kentucky to support upper-class
The program will cost the poorest Kentuckians to make private education cheaper for the richer families in the state, according to the study.
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Yet in a lesson for these other states, Arizona’s voucher experiment has since precipitated a budget meltdown.
Report: Ky. voucher program would mostly benefit families that already have kids in private schools
A report released Monday suggests amending Kentucky’s Constitution in the November election would come at the expense of public school students and the state’s coffers.
THE VOUCHER TAX
A recent analysis of the potential cost of school vouchers in Kentucky shows that Bluegrass State taxpayers could be on the hook for $199 million in year one – with those costs expected to balloon in subsequent years.
Opinion | GOP doesn’t want taxpayers to know the cost of vouchers
The school board in western Wisconsin’s Kickapoo School District, with fewer than 500 students from kindergarten through high school, took the bull by the horns the other day and sent the state Legislature a message that essentially said, “Your school voucher programs are killing us.”
NC voucher fallout: We’re all paying for pricey private schools. It’ll get worse | Opinion
There’s at least one problem, though: In many cases, every taxpayer is footing the bill for people who already can afford private school. And it’s likely going to get even more expensive.
