Proposals for school voucher programs must be met with robust, sustained opposition because they harm students, schools, and communities. Public education guarantees students and families certain rights and protections. However, many of those rights and protections do not apply to students using vouchers to attend private schools. Some voucher programs even allow discrimination by private education providers based on characteristics such as disability status, religion, and sexual orientation and gender identity. Voucher programs also have been shown to increase racial isolation and lead to worse educational outcomes for students. Public schools often serve as the community’s largest employer, while also creating hubs for community engagement. By undermining resources for public education, voucher programs threaten this critical community pillar, which serves all students across their strengths and needs.

This website offers a wide range of tools from groups that oppose vouchers and other efforts to divert public funding in education. We work to protect the vital institution of public education and ensure all students have access to welcoming, well-resourced public schools. On this site, you’ll find fact sheets, policy briefs, FAQs, model legislation, reports, editorials, example letters to the editor, graphics, personal narratives, webinars, and more. These resources cover topics including the financial strain of vouchers, the evidence of student discrimination within voucher programs, the lack of accountability in voucher programs, the effects of vouchers on student success, and the ways in which vouchers undermine public education. By sharing tools and data that expose the truth about vouchers, we can work together to defeat these harmful policies.