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Most new voucher recipients didn't come from an NC public school, new data shows
Most of North Carolina's publicly funded general private school tuition vouchers this year went to students who were not enrolled in a North Carolina public school the year before, a new state report shows.
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction found 6,710 recipients of the voucher, called an Opportunity Scholarship, this year attended a public school in the state last year.
Column: Don’t let federal tax credits drain Bend-La Pine’s public schools
In the “big, beautiful bill” federal lawmakers have tucked in a proposal that threatens the very heart of public education, not only across the country, but right here in Central Oregon. The Educational Choice for Children Act creates a backdoor voucher scheme across all states, enabling billions of taxpayer dollars to be funneled away from public schools and into private institutions that operate without oversight, transparency or public accountability.
140 Organizations Tell Congress Say No to Vouchers!
Graphic on organizations opposing the federal voucher legislation.
Advancement Project National Private School Voucher Program Opposition Letter May 30 2025
On behalf of Advancement Project and 139 national, state, and grassroots racial justice, education justice, and other civil rights organizations, we write urging you to oppose any effort to authorize or create a national private school voucher program.
Trump's Budget Bill Funnels More Money to Billionaires and Wealthy Private Schools
Trump's "big, beautiful bill" hides a massive tax loophole for billionaires that would practically pay them for "donating" money to pay for private school tuition of parents that may earn up to $500,000 per year - both increasing the deficit and weakening public schools. Tell your lawmaker to say NO to school vouchers.
The GOP House Budget Bill Also Takes Aim at Public Education with Its Private School Voucher Scheme
The GOP’s Trump-backed “big, beautiful bill” has passed out of the House of Representatives, and taxpayers are rightfully giving lots of attention to features like the slashing of Medicaid and tax cuts for the wealthy. But buried within the bill is language that would create federal education private school vouchers and provide a tax dodge for the wealthy while eroding the public school system in favor of taxpayer-subsidized discrimination.
ESA Voucher Fraud Case Including Fake Children Raises Integrity Concerns About Universal Vouchers
On Monday, Dec. 2, news broke that an out-of-state couple were indicted for defrauding the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) universal voucher program, by submitting applications for 50 children, 43 of whom do not exist, according to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
The five-alarm fire that public education is facing
All children deserve to attend welcoming and well-funded schools where they can learn and grow, regardless of race, disability, or income. But funding for public schools, where nearly 90% of all U.S. students learn, is at a near crisis point. The Trump administration’s goals, which are taken right out of Project 2025, seem to be to defund public education to the point that it doesn’t work, then offer private school vouchers as a solution to a manufactured problem. In this post, we highlight five ways public education is on fire in the United States and the damage this will do to students’ abilities to learn and thrive. Instead of cutting funds, lawmakers should invest in public schools, one of the best tools we still have to build a prosperous, equitable country.
Public Funds Belong in Public Schools
High-quality public schools are a common good that serve as the bedrock of a high-functioning, multiracial democracy. Yet across Ohio, lawmakers are prioritizing the interests of wealthy donors over the needs of the 10.6 million students who attend public school. Public Funds Belong in Public Schools is a toolkit created for everyday Ohioans who want to stand up for public education and push back against the expansion of private school vouchers.
#191 These Conservative Texans Oppose School Vouchers
Vouchers are not conservative. That’s what we heard again and again when we talked to Texans who consider themselves Republicans but oppose their party’s top education priority. We hear from rural Texans who are taking the attacks on their local schools very personally, and business minded Republicans who fear the consequences of privatizing education for workforce development. But the real lesson in this episode is political. The big money push to expand school vouchers, and expel voucher opponents, is spurring rising discontent within the ranks of the Republican party, including among some of Trump’s staunchest supporters.
Statement on Supreme Court Agreeing to Hear Oklahoma Case Involving Nation’s First Religious Public Charter School
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union, Education Law Center, and Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following statement concerning the petitions for certiorari granted today by the U.S. Supreme Court in Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond. The organizations represent faith leaders, public school parents, and public education advocates in a separate lawsuit to stop Oklahoma from sponsoring and funding St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.
Trump’s Education Agenda Is a Big Vulnerability
Donald Trump is pushing an elite-driven school privatization project that is deeply unpopular with his base. It offers a golden political opportunity for Democrats, if only they would seize it.
About That Urban Institute Voucher Study: Q&A With Josh Cowen
The Urban Institute released a report on April 22nd that has been gaining excessive attention among advocates of private-school vouchers. In the Q&A below, National Education Policy Center director Kevin Welner asks Josh Cowen of Michigan State University to help us un- derstand that study and why there has been so much interest among folks who have other- wise been shielding their eyes from recent voucher research. Prof. Cowen was lead author of a similar study published in 2013, so we thought he would be the ideal person to comment on this new one. Cowen is the author of the 2024 book, The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers (Harvard Education Press).
National Coalition for Public Education Denounces Inclusion of National Private School VoucherProgram in Republican Tax Bill
Today, the House Ways & Means Committee introduced a $20 billion national school voucher program in their “mega bill.” If this bill becomes law, vouchers for private schools would be federally mandated in every state in America, despite the fact these programs have been rejected at the state level each time they’ve been on the ballot – a total of seventeen times.
Advancement Project Letter Opposing HR-833
On behalf of Advancement Project and 93 national, state, and grassroots racial justice, education justice, and other civil rights organizations, we write in opposition to H.R. 833 and S. 292, the Educational Choice for Children Act (“ECCA”), which would create a nationwide private school voucher program in the form of a 100% tax break for the wealthy.
What is the federal private school voucher program?
Social Media Graphics on the impact of the Educational Choice for Children Act.
House Tax Bill Enlists the Wealthy to Spread Private School Vouchers
The tax plan moving through the U.S. House of Representatives includes a provision granting extraordinarily generous treatment to nonprofits that give out vouchers for free or reduced tuition at private K-12 schools. While the bill significantly cuts charitable giving incentives overall, nonprofits that commit to focusing solely on supporting private K-12 schools would be spared from those cuts and see their donors’ tax incentive almost triple relative to what they receive today. On top of that, the bill goes out of its way to provide school voucher donors who contribute corporate stock with an extra layer of tax subsidy that works as a lucrative tax shelter. Essentially, the bill allows wealthy individuals to avoid paying capital gains tax as a reward for funneling public funds into private schools.
The Billionaire Backers of Louisiana’s Voucher Push: Who’s Funding the Privatization of Public Education?
The fight over Louisiana’s public schools isn’t just playing out in classrooms—it’s playing out in boardrooms, campaign finance reports, and legislative backrooms. With the state preparing to launch the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (LA GATOR) Scholarship Program in the 2025–2026 school year, the future of public education in Louisiana is being reshaped by powerful national forces and influential local reformers.
Congress usually snubs private school choice expansion. Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ embraces it.
A big Republican budget bill in Congress would establish a nationwide, federal school choice program — a potential political breakthrough that conservative lawmakers and advocates have discussed for years but which has consistently stalled.
Rapidly expanding school voucher programs pinch state budgets
Characterizing vouchers as an “entitlement program,” Hobbs said the state could spend more than $1 billion subsidizing private education in the upcoming fiscal year. The Democratic governor said those expenses could crowd out other budget priorities, including disability programs and pay raises for firefighters and state troopers.