More than 34K Arkansas students apply for next school year’s vouchers

Gov. Greg Abbott, state Rep. Gina Hinojosa discuss school choice bill

Senate Bill 2, the school choice bill, passed a House committee last week and it’s currently awaiting a debate on the full Texas House floor.

Inside the movement to redirect billions of taxpayer dollars to private religious schools

This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and The New Yorker. The Ohio Model: Rarely seen letters show how the voucher movement started in the 1990s as a concealed effort to finance urban parochial schools and expanded to a much broader push. Helping the Affluent: An initiative promoted as a civil rights cause — helping poor kids […]

Why School Choice Is Not A Leftist Plot To Take Over Private Ed

Since before the founding of our country, Americans have taxed ourselves to pay for public K-12 education.

Don't give vouchers for private schools

Some of our state representatives are determined to give taxpayers’ dollars to families to help offset the expense of sending their kids to private schools. Not all, but most of these families are middle class or better. I had an…

Trump's school choice push adds to momentum in statehouses

More than a dozen states in the past two years have launched or expanded programs that allow families to use taxpayer dollars to send their students to private schools. Now, President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress want to supercharge ...

Where's the money? Florida seeks to better track school voucher funds at private schools

The Florida Senate has a plan to crack down on a school voucher program to improve tracking to ensure state money follows the student.