State Voucher Program Issues

Articles

• As Budgets Tighten, Some State Lawmakers Reconsider Costly Private School Vouchers | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• How School Voucher Programs Hurt Students
• In the Wild West of School Voucher Expansions, States Rely on Untested Companies, With Mixed Results
• The Highly Negative Impacts of Vouchers
• Voucher programs fail rural schools | Economic Policy Institute

Arkansas

• ‘A Conservative Attempt at Resegregation’: Arkansas School Voucher Application Asking Parents If They Want Access to ‘A Different Racial Mix of Students’ Sets Off Firestorm on Social Media

Arizona

• Arizona public schools remain ranked last in the US as voucher spending hits $1 billion | AZ Mirror
• Colorado residents plead guilty to defrauding Arizona’s school voucher system | KJZZ Phoenix

Colorado

• How the Colorado Schools Fund is setting up the case for vouchers | Colorado Newsline
• This isn’t school ‘choice.’ It’s public money siphoned off for private education. | Colorado Newsline

Florida

• Florida officials created a universal school voucher plan – and now they’re furious that Islamic schools are participating | Americans United for Separation of Church & State

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma Gov. Stitt’s lawsuit against ClassWallet for allegedly mismanaging COVID funds dismissed

Tennessee

• Students on Tennessee vouchers are underperforming, state audit finds
• Tennessee picks vendor with no voucher experience to manage its education savings accounts

Texas

• How Odyssey rose from tech startup to manager of Texas’ $1B school voucher program | Houston Chronicle
• How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in Texas