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Federal Voucher Program – FAQs
The expansion of private school vouchers through the inclusion of a federal voucher scheme in the budget reconciliation bill passed in July is part of a broader assault on public education designed to privatize one of the most important common goods underpinning American democracy. Opting in to the federal program (the state’s choice), even to use voucher money for public education students, broadly endangers public education and opens the door to further voucher expansion, whether vouchers are already available in a given state or not.
Big Ugly Bill Implications for Our Public Schools
These slides summarize the impact of the national voucher program and cuts to SNAP/Medicaid in the Trump administration's budget reconciliation bill.
States Must Reject Harmful Voucher Program
The federal voucher program contained in the budget reconciliation bill passed in early July will divert federal tax dollars from the U.S. Treasury and from services, including public education, that Americans rely on, to give to private and religious schools that pick and choose whom they educate and openly discriminate against some students and families.
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Devastate Public Schools. America’s Kids Will Pay the Price
This week, Republican lawmakers are attempting to pass a budget reconciliation bill that pays for unprecedented handouts to the wealthiest Americans on the backs of cuts to programs that benefit most people. Hidden in this budget package before the House is a national private school voucher program funded through tax breaks for the wealthy that threatens to dismantle our system of public schools.
Directional Signals: A New Analysis of the Evolving Private School Choice Landscape
Three years ago, Arizona became the first state to allow all students—regardless of income or need—to use public dollars for private school tuition and other educational expenses. The move marked a sweeping shift in the scale and scope of school choice in the United States.
Here is the Truth: School Vouchers Just Don’t Work
The table, which is linked, highlights key student achievement results from six southern states. The chart shows that none of the selected school voucher programs with publicly accessible data demonstrably met their goals of increasing student achievement across grade levels, in specific subjects, or on statewide college-readiness assessments.
New Federal Tax Credit Boosts School Choice—but Blue States Face Big Decision
School-choice advocates won a major victory with President Trump’s tax megabill—but it comes with a catch.
The federal government will now subsidize private-school tuition, via unusually generous tax credits for donations to nonprofits. However, governors must opt into the program. Democratic-led states may reject it, derailing school-choice advocates’ goal for a nationwide effort.
Distant Dome: Education Freedom Account Expansion Will Be Costly
The parents of the 11,000 students who applied for grants from the newly opened vault in the state treasury are not the ones advocates tout as the beneficiary of the Education Freedom Account program if New Hampshire resembles other state’s experiences when they transitioned to “universal vouchers.”
Labor Voices: Hometown schools at risk from federal voucher program
Whether it’s the buzz of a Friday night football game, the excitement of a school play or the familiar faces in the school pick-up line, our hometown public schools are at the heart of who we are as Michiganians.
But a new national school voucher program enacted as part of the recently passed federal spending plan could have devastating impacts on school communities in towns across Michigan.
Scamming Our Schools: Robbing Our Students’ Futures to Line Their Pockets
Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) led a spotlight forum focused on the harmful consequences the Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” will have on students, parents, teachers, and schools across the country. Specifically, the forum highlights the school voucher-related provisions from the bill, which would divert billions of dollars in taxpayer funding to create the first ever national school voucher program.
Latest News
The National Coalition for Public Education monthly compilation of news article on voucher programs.
Voucher programs threaten the promise of public education
Today, we face a troubling trend. The push for voucher programs that redirect public funds to private schools threatens to abandon the fundamental promise of public education. While these programs sound appealing on the surface, they risk dismantling the very foundation that makes American education a beacon of opportunity for all.
Megabill Takes Cap Off Unprecedented Private School Voucher Tax Credit, Potentially Raising Cost by Tens of Billions Relative to Earlier Version
The tax and spending legislation signed on Friday by President Trump will create an unprecedented, dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit designed to support private and religious K-12 schools. The credit will fully reimburse donors for the first $1,700 they give to groups that hand out tuition vouchers to attend private schools. There is no other cause—not children’s hospitals, veterans’ groups, or disaster relief—that taxpayers can contribute to and see the entire cost of their contribution bankrolled by the federal government.
Judge rules Ohio’s EdChoice private school voucher program unconstitutional
A Franklin County judge has ruled that Ohio’s EdChoice school voucher programs are unconstitutional, delivering a victory to public school advocates and setting the stage for a likely appeal on a case over education funding in the state.
What You Need to Know About the National Private School Voucher Proposal
School vouchers allow families to use public funds to pay for their children’s private school tuition. School voucher programs enacted across the country – using tax credits, grants, and savings accounts to divert public funding to pay for private education – have consistently demonstrated that states with voucher programs tend to expand the programs over time. These expansions dramatically increase the amount of public funds diverted to private education while state investments in public education remain stagnant or decrease. Despite the numerous negative consequences of using publicly funded vouchers to pay for K-12 private education expenses,1 policy makers across the country continue to propose similar programs.
Federal Voucher System — Like Florida’s — Would Divert Funding to Private Schools and Home-Schoolers
The reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives includes a federal tax credit voucher that would provide taxpayer-funded scholarships to pay for tuition at private schools and for home-schooled students. This $5-billion tax credit would divert funding that would otherwise go into federal coffers. This part of the reconciliation bill would make vouchers available to students in every state, even in those states where voters have opposed them like Kentucky, Colorado, and Nebraska, most recently.
Parents and Allies Oppose National Private School Voucher Program
Policymakers join parents, students, educators and allies to discuss how the national private school voucher program in the budget reconciliation bill would shift resources from public schools to wealthy people and private schools.
Trump and Republicans Want Taxpayers to Fund Their Pet Project: Private Schools
When is a “school choice” proposal not really about school choice? In the budget bill that Republicans rushed through the House on May 12, 2025, school choice is just a cover-up for tax relief for the rich.
The School Voucher Debate – How School Choice Affects Low-Income Communities and Housing
The school choice movement, heavily supported by the Trump administration, aims to expand access to private and charter schools by redirecting public education funds through vouchers. These programs allow families to use taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuition, but they come with serious consequences for public education, particularly in low-income and minority communities.
Voucher Take-up Rates
This document lists articles from different states on the percentages of voucher students who never attended public school or were already in private school.