Milwaukee has the longest-running voucher program in the country. Kansas’ new tax credit scholarship is a voucher program with a middle man (Scholarship Granting Organization). Buyer beware:

“Now they are fighting the resegregation of their community—and the stranding of kids in isolated, fly-by-night academies that virtually guarantee they will never make it out of poverty.

“The latest battle of the mad grandmas is against new laws that would force the sale of public school buildings to private school operators.

“‘The public schools are just being raped,’ says Hicks. ‘A lot of schools no longer have gym, no longer have art, language, higher math. Schools don’t have the money because they’re sticking money in charter schools and vouchers, which are businesses.'”

See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/08/187790/voucher-school-tour#sthash.o537ybHT.dpuf