School vouchers were sold as a way for students from low-income families to escape under-performing schools. But investigations show that voucher programs actually serve a different group.

Let’s start with who benefits. First and foremost, the answer is: existing private school students. Small, pilot voucher programs with income limits have been around since the early 1990s, but ...

The costs of voucher plans are a more reasonable objection. In the shorter term, when transitioning away from the state-controlled school system, there would likely be an increase in costs.

The big story: Proponents of expanding school voucher programs argued that children struggling in public education would benefit with greater opportunities afforded to them. The reality in Florida ...

As state GOP lawmakers race to pass private school vouchers, divisions are already emerging on how they would impact the state’s nearly 780,000 special education students. Gov. Greg Abbott and ...

The modern idea of school vouchers really took shape in the 1950s during efforts to avoid integration. Milton Friedman published his proposal for vouchers in 1955, but it was only in the 1990s ...

A coalition of Ohio public school districts and advocates who claimed victory in a lawsuit to eliminate the state’s private ...

“The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence from Florida’s McKay Scholarship Program” is the first empirical study conducted to date on the effect ...

A new report says Ohio students who used the state's EdChoice private school vouchers were more likely to enroll in college and earn four-year degrees than public school students. The study ...

The term “school choice” can refer to a wide range of alternatives to the traditional public school. When it comes to vouchers, that term usually means a promise to provide children trapped in ...

Palm Beach County has 145 private schools, which currently enroll 13.5% of all K-12 students. There are now 10,383 students using school vouchers in the county, according to Step Up for Students ...