Vouchers don’t help poor kids-they hurt them, in Louisiana and everywhere else. As Diane Ravitch explains, “Remember the claim that vouchers would ‘save poor kids from failing public schools’? As we see in state after state, it’s not true. Josh Cowen wrote in his new book The Privateers that voucher...
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Senate Action Alert
Voucher bills are headed to the floor of the Senate this week-contact your Senator and urge them to vote NO on SB 87 and SB 75. SB 87 is an expansion of the current tax credit “scholarship” voucher program that was further expanded in committee by Rep. Adam Thomas who...
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No comments Millions flow to wealthy families, pricey private schools under Florida’s supercharged voucher program
Vouchers are welfare for the wealthy. The myth of helping poor kids yields to the nightmare of using tax dollars to subsidize exclusionary religious private schools for wealthy and paying subprime voucher schools for the poor. “Once reserved for low-income students and those with disabilities, state scholarships, often called vouchers,...
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No comments Vouchers Hurt Ohio (and every other state with them)
“Ohio is a state where families earning $60,000 a year are subsidizing the private school tuition of families earning $300,000 a year,” Dan Heintz, educator and school board member. https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-02-03/education/debate-intensifies-over-oh-school-vouchers-as-trump-advocates-expansion/a95010-1 Originally posted to Facebook 2/3/25....
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