School Vouchers Are a Big, Fat Tax Break for the Wealthy | Opinion

Vouchers are neither an evidence-based education policy nor a benevolent gift to low-income families fleeing community schools. They are a tax scheme designed to benefit the wealthiest Americans at the harm and expense of most everyone else. Above the law and the locally elected boards that govern our nation’s public schools, privatization programs are rife with the very fraud, waste, and abuse this administration has pretended to care about chainsawing from the federal budget.