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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. 

11/18/2024

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars

North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-style programs.

11/15/2024

‘A stunning public rebuke’: When voters had the choice, they rejected private school vouchers

On Election Day, voters in Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska squarely rejected private school choice ballot measures, demonstrating how much voters of all stripes oppose the use of taxpayer dollars to fund private school tuition.

11/12/2024

Despite Trump’s win, school vouchers again rejected by majorities of U.S. voters

Expansions of school vouchers, despite backing from wealthy conservatives, have never won when put to voters. Instead, they lose by margins not often seen in such a polarized country.

11/11/2024

In Multiple States, Voters Firmly Rejected School Voucher Programs

But despite Trump’s big win in the presidential race, vouchers were again soundly rejected by significant majorities of Americans.

11/03/2024

How privatization efforts are resurrecting school segregation

Under former President Donald Trump’s administration, an endgame for conservative education policy became clear: the full privatization of public education.

11/03/2024

Ohio spent nearly $970 million on private school vouchers last year

Among its five private school scholarships, the state spent $962,022,783.24 sending more than 150,000 students to private schools. More than 88,000 of them were under the EdChoice-Expansion scholarship program, which has no income requirements for Ohioans to qualify.

11/03/2024

Are Vouchers Racially Exclusive?

Voucher advocates and opponents alike will need to keep this issue, as well as the racially exclusive history of some schools using state funding in mind when any such bill is proposed. Whether or not vouchers or voucher-like programs such as Education Savings Accounts are racially exclusive depends on who you ask and seems to depend on their design. There is certainly a history of many such programs in the South being racially exclusive.

11/02/2024

Ten years of NC’s private school vouchers, and they’re only becoming less accountable

The report provides less information on the program than in the past, at a time when state funding for vouchers is poised to quadruple over the next decade. Meanwhile, other sources of data on how the money is spent have disappeared.

11/01/2024

New data on Ark. vouchers: More than 80% of new enrollees did not attend public school last year

Nearly 5,000 students who received vouchers in Year One continued into Year Two of the program. They were joined by more than 9,000 new enrollees who joined the program this year, for a total enrollment of 14,297. As with Year One, the overwhelming majority of the new enrollees — 83% — did not attend public school in the prior year.

10/28/2024

Opinion: NC taxpayer money should support public schools, not private and charter schools

Common sense tells us that public schools are instrumental to a strong society because they educate everyone in it, which makes us all better off.

10/28/2024

Opinion: Trinity won’t let me write about Amendment 2. Here’s why I’m against it.

One of the scariest things about Amendment 2 is that it basically serves as a blank check for vouchers to non-public schools with no clear place for the funding to come from other than public schools.

10/23/2024

‘When Voters Get to Decide, Vouchers Lose’

Voters in three states are being asked to decide whether public money should go to support private education. Educators are mobilizing to warn the public about the dangers of school vouchers.

10/23/2024

School Vouchers Have a Racist History and Troubling Impacts on Public Schools

The voucher system came out of racist parents’ rejection of integrated schools in the ‘50s. It’s still hurting students.

10/23/2024

School vouchers, proposed in Texas, are mostly used by the wealthy in Arizona

For example, in the Phoenix area where I live, there are zip codes that are lower income where just 1% of families are using the voucher program, whereas in wealthier zip codes, 25% to 30% of families are using the voucher program. And so there’s a great disparity by income and who is benefiting from this.

10/23/2024

School vouchers have a racist history, as well as troubling impacts on public schools

The voucher system came out of racist parents’ rejection of integrated schools in the ‘50s. It’s still hurting students.