They divert funds from public education and undermine it (which I think is a GOP goal).
The voucher misconception, repeated in today’s @nytimes assumes most private schools are elite—and accept low-income kids with a voucher.
— Josh Cowen (@joshcowenMSU) July 29, 2024
They don’t.
Wealthier families get rebates for elite schools they’re already in, and lower income kids get shoved into sub-prime options pic.twitter.com/Bxuu3lqyt9
Another day, another news story: vouchers mostly go to kids already in private school.
— Josh Cowen (@joshcowenMSU) June 17, 2024
The hit to state budgets and to public schools comes because taxpayers are now picking up the tab for choices previously made by the private sectorhttps://t.co/3uRyU9MMsw pic.twitter.com/u7Cu4il8ry
Ohio vouchers now at nearly $1 billion, with new users overwhelmingly white families and kids already in private schools.https://t.co/teWR8ba5PQ pic.twitter.com/u4W9lEWHvN
— Josh Cowen (@joshcowenMSU) August 14, 2024
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects https://t.co/E0SRB2IfZN
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 16, 2024
NC requires public school teachers to hold a license.
— Justin Parmenter (@JustinParmenter) July 8, 2024
Durham, NC's Mt. Zion Christian Academy receives public $ for vouchers.
They require their teachers to demonstrate their relationship w/the Holy Spirit by speaking in tongues.
A license is optional. #nced #ncpol pic.twitter.com/G9IIkKmXbd
No state has ever written a blank check to ensure an adequate public education for every student, but Arizona did write a blank check for its private school voucher program. Now a perverse set of incentives are draining AZ public education. https://t.co/gOACT8Cgug
— Derek W. Black (@DerekWBlack) July 8, 2024
The recent @CNN report on vouchers quotes an inside document from Betsy DeVos’s lobby group:
— Josh Cowen (@joshcowenMSU) June 26, 2024
They’ve spent $250 million since 2013.
To get $25 billion in voucher and voucher like systems from taxpayers.
This spending vastly exceeds previously reports.https://t.co/TZsDqmHUWw pic.twitter.com/uDlSUOoZ54
As the evidence for school vouchers collapsed over the last decade, the evidence case for directly funding public schools has continued to build.
— Josh Cowen (@joshcowenMSU) June 24, 2024
That either is still a “debate” is the mere result of right-wing investment in a think tank network to manufacture a counter-reality. https://t.co/WFVxsZSqEw
“[N]ew evaluations of vouchers in Washington, D.C., Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio show some of the largest test score drops ever seen in the research record—between -0.15 and -0.50 standard deviations of learning loss.” https://t.co/0Sd1FkrYWd
— jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) November 25, 2023
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— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) August 25, 2024
What’s happening to education in states like Ohio
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Not long ago, Ohio had the 5th highest system of public education in the nation.
Then big donors and Republican politicians got involved, largely drawn by the big money they sought to grab from public…
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ARIZONA: Exactly what people said would happen is happening. This is what @GovBillLee, Sexton and the @TNGOP have inflicted upon Tennessee with their privatizer pals. This is our future. http://www.washingtonpost.com/education/20…
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-08-07T14:19:42.823Z
Sad! 