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Most of the families applying for Alabama's new school vouchers have kids in non-public schools
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than half of families who applied for Alabama’s new school voucher program have children attending a private school or are home schooling, numbers that buoy school ...
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RELEASE: School Vouchers Need Accountability To Avoid Fraud and Abuse, CAP Finds
Washington, D.C. — In recent years, billions of taxpayer dollars have been stripped away from the U.S. public education system to fund rapidly growing school voucher programs across the country ...
San Antonio Current19d
Texas' school voucher bill clears hurdle, heads to House floor
The Texas Public Education Committee voted 9-6 Thursday to advance amended school voucher legislation to the House floor — a significant step toward its final passage. All Democrats on the ...
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POLL: Would you apply for school vouchers?
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — If Texas passes Senate Bill 2, an education bill that could allocate $1 billion in taxpayer money to fund school vouchers, it would establish an Education Savings ...
Houston Chronicle21d
Texas' $1B voucher plan has a Christian focus. Here's why Muslim, Jewish schools could also benefit
Passing school vouchers wouldn’t just deliver a major victory to the Christian private schools that Gov. Greg Abbott has visited in his years-long push for the policy. The leaders of the state ...
USA Today21d
School vouchers distract from the real solutions that Texas public schools need | Opinion
His current act involves pushing for school vouchers, a policy that has failed time and time again but still finds a place in the governor’s script. Take the Leander Independent School District.
AZ Central21d
Texas House education committee to take up revised Senate voucher bill. Here's what changed
A proposed Texas House committee's revision to the Senate’s school voucher bill would give higher priority to students receiving special education and those from low-income backgrounds ...
Charlotte Observer23d
Demand for NC school vouchers is slowing down, but the damage has already been done | Opinion
It’s not clear how many of the existing voucher recipients — nearly 80,000 in total — will renew their funding for the upcoming school year. According to a spokesperson for NCSEAA ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer28d
DepEd recovers funds from schools with voucher program issues
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) has already begun recovering funds from private schools involved in the irregularities found in the Senior High School Voucher Program ...
Austin American-Statesman28d
Abbott asserts Legislature will pass school vouchers but keeps making sales pitch to Texans
Greg Abbott on Tuesday tapped his former counterpart from Arizona to sell the message that a school voucher plan and fully funded public schools can go hand in hand. Sitting alongside former ...
The Salt Lake Tribune29d
Utah leaders inject 25% more funding into state’s multimillion-dollar school voucher program
Utah’s school voucher program will see a $20 million bump next academic year, bringing the state’s total spending to more than $100 million after Gov. Spencer Cox approved the 2026 public ...
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Ohio thinks 15% more students will use private school vouchers next year
Mar. 24—Projections from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce show Ed Choice Expansion voucher use at private schools is expected to rise by 15% in the 2025-2026 school year and by an ...