How Do Vouchers Defund Public Schools? Four Warnings and One Big Takeaway

Draining Funds From Public Education
Written By Joshua Cowen

EXCERPT

Over the past two years, school voucher systems and other related schemes that divert taxpayer revenue toward private K-12 tuition have passed state legislatures at unprecedented rates. Although these recent bills became law only, for the most part, in red states, their supporters include a handful of Democrats in other parts of the country as well. And all of this comes despite a decade of evidence that vouchers have led to some of the steepest declines in student achievement on record.

Joshua Cowen
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