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State Rep. Glenn Rogers 1/18/24 State Rep. Glenn Rogers 1/18/24

Vouchers are not conservative

A voucher program is a policy of diverting state and taxpayer resources marked for public education to private entities. Proponents of this system try to claim that children are “trapped in the public education system they were raised in.” This is, quite frankly, not true.

Cyrus Driver and Mary Gonzalez 1/11/24 Cyrus Driver and Mary Gonzalez 1/11/24

School choice seems like a quick fix, but does more harm than good for families in the U.S.

Right now, a lot of people claim to have the answer to solving the problem of equity in our education system. It seems that equity in education is a value many of us share, regardless of political leaning. There are a number of roads that people think will take us there, but not all roads are clear on the reality that education is a public good and a key ingredient in a healthy democracy.

CREED and HEAL NC 1/11/24 CREED and HEAL NC 1/11/24

Students, educators advocate for public schools

Every Child NC's "Opportunity for Every Child" rally was held in response to the Republican-led legislative efforts to expand private school vouchers this long session. Speakers spoke about the importance of funding quality and equitable public education.

Rally against private school vouchers</a> (CBS17)

CREED and HEAL NC 1/11/24 CREED and HEAL NC 1/11/24

Rally against private school vouchers (CBS17)

CBS 17 covers a a CREED and HEAL NC rally against school vouchers.

Sherri Jones 1/11/24 Sherri Jones 1/11/24

Let’s listen to what parents, not politicians, really want from their public schools

As a school board member in Arizona, I hear the concerns, hopes and frustrations that parents and citizens have about our public schools. The things that families worry about? School safety, shrinking budgets, student achievement and the accessibility of programs.

These are the issues that unite our students and families in our public schools and the kinds of problems that they want addressed. And these are the issues that I really want to work on with other policymakers who, regardless of political affiliation, care about similar things.

Kevin Welner 1/11/24 Kevin Welner 1/11/24

‘Government Schools’ or Public Schools? Trump, DeVos, and the Language of School Choice

President Donald Trump didn’t coin the phrase “government schools.” But he gave it a big stage and a broader public audience during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, when he used it to urge Congress to back a bill that would provide $5 billion in tax credits to support scholarships for private school admission, tutoring, and other educational services.

Policy Matters Ohio 1/11/24 Policy Matters Ohio 1/11/24

Ohio Anti-Voucher Coalition (WCBE)

Ohio public school districts that support a lawsuit against the state over private school vouchers say Republican leaders are bullying and intimidating them.

According to A.J. Calderone, superintendent of LaBrae Local Schools in Trumbull County and a member of the coalition Vouchers Hurt Ohio , Senate President Matt Huffman (R-Lima) and Auditor Keith Faber (R-Ohio) wrote to all of Ohio’s public school districts earlier this summer asking for information about individual school districts that were involved in the lawsuit against the state. Calderone said the letter was unnecessary because the requested information would have been available through the state's Legislative Service Commission.

Policy Matters Ohio 1/11/24 Policy Matters Ohio 1/11/24

Ohio Lawsuit (NBC4)

A growing number of school districts are joining a lawsuit against the state, pushing back against private school vouchers. The lawsuit was filed last year and is awaiting trial.

“Vouchers are going on trial,” Dayton Public Schools board member Jocelyn Rhynard said. “And we will make our case in the court of law, where the law matters, and the constitution cannot be ignored.”

Policy Matters Ohio 1/11/24 Policy Matters Ohio 1/11/24

Ohio School Vouchers (News5)

An Ohio program that already directs more than $100 million of public money to private schools will undergo a massive expansion this school year.

Reg Ballantyne 1/10/24 Reg Ballantyne 1/10/24

The Campaign to Sabotage Texas’s Public Schools

What seems like an outbreak of local skirmishes is part of a decades-long push to privatize the education system.

Reg Ballantyne 1/10/24 Reg Ballantyne 1/10/24

Scale back Arizona's school voucher expansion, before it's too late

Public school teachers are under assault from every angle. Arizona's universal voucher program is just one (very harmful) example.

Rebecca Clarren 1/10/24 Rebecca Clarren 1/10/24

How America Is Failing Native American Students

Inside a double-wide trailer on the Warm Springs reservation in central Oregon, nearly two dozen American Indian high-school students sit facing computers, teaching themselves math and history. Rain slaps the roof. Ear buds dangle from one girl’s left ear. Two more students whisper, sharing a joke. Still another student, his face set in a serious expression, stares at the screen before him. The one teacher in the room previously taught third grade; he’s certified to teach high-school continuing education and agricultural science. Nearly all of the young people who study in this trailer—officially called the Bridges Career and Technical High School at Warm Springs—are Native Americans.

Steve Suitts 1/10/24 Steve Suitts 1/10/24

School Vouchers Are Just Code for ‘Segregation Forever’

Today advocates of “school choice” routinely use the language of civil rights to argue that federal and state governments should finance largely unregulated private schools through the use of vouchers. These are the same type of vouchers that were the essential tools of Southern segregationists who fought and obstructed public school desegregation after the U. S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. How has the nation arrived at this point?