• Brookings Edu: Be wary of what you read in the school voucher debate

• Tucson Sentinel: Major cuts to roads, adult education, but not school vouchers in proposed Arizona state budget

• The Ohio Newsroom: School voucher use has surged in Ohio. But private school enrollment isn’t rising with it

• CNN Politics: Arizona is sending taxpayer money to religious schools — and billionaires see it as a model for the US

may 2024

• WFYI Indianapolis: Indiana private school vouchers hit record with 70,000 students, nearly half-billion dollar cost

• WOSU Ohio: School voucher use has exploded. Some Ohio families can't take part

• The Nation: Why “Fund Students, Not Systems” Is a Recipe for Disaster

• The Frontier: Audit Finds Special Interest Groups Gave Oklahoma Private Schools First-Dibs on Federal Relief Money While Rejecting Poor Kids

• Oklahoma KFOR: Audit: Stay In School Program Benefitted Wealthier Families and Gave Preferential Treatment to Five Schools

• Ohio WKSU: School Vouchers Now Going to More Wealthy, Private School Students, Study Says

May 2023

• The Mesa Tribune: School Voucher Costs Skyrocketing for Taxpayers

• NC Justice Center: New Analysis Shows Many Private Schools in NC Have More Vouchers Than Students

• Center on Budget & Policy Priorities: State Lawmakers Are Draining Public Revenues With Private School Vouchers

• Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: Tax Avoidance Continues to Fuel School Privatization Efforts

• Houston Public Media: Many Texas Special Ed Parents Fear School Vouchers Because ‘Private Schools Don’t Have to Play’

February 2023

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: State Policymakers Should Reject K-12 School Voucher Plans

• Idaho Statesman: Many Rural Idaho Counties Don’t Have Private Schools. What Vouchers Would Mean for Them.

• IndyPolitics: Top Indiana Senator Rebukes Voucher School Program in New Letter

• Texas Public Radio: Untangling Facts from Spin: The Financial Impact of School Vouchers and ESAs on Texas

• Texas Tribune: In Audio, High-Ranking Texas Official Admits Public School Funds Could Drop With Voucher-Like Programs

• Alternet: School Choice Nightmare: Vouchers Are Endangering the Rights of Families

• Forbes: How School Voucher Laws Protect Discrimination

• The Oklahoman: Behind the ‘Grassroots’ Movement for Oklahoma School Vouchers

• Arizona Republic: ‘I Felt Very Unsafe’: Gay Fathers Confronted at Arizona Religious School Accepting Vouchers

May 2021

• Washington Monthly: Trump’s Expansion of 529 Savings Plans Is One Pricey Idea

• NCPE Letter: Opposing Funding for Private School Vouchers in FY 2022 Appropriations

• Education Next: School Choice and “The Truly Disadvantaged”

august 2020

• New Republic: Betsy DeVos’s Plot to Enrich Private Schools Amid the Pandemic

• Washington v DeVos Decision: Western District of Washington issues a preliminary injunction that prevents the Dept of Education from implementing or enforcing the provisions in the April 30 Equitable Services Guidance and the Interim Final Rule.

January 2020

• Phi Delta Kappan: In Indiana, School Choice Means Segregation

• Orlando Sentinel: Anti-LGBT Florida Schools Getting School Vouchers

October 2019

• Education Week: GAO Finds Uneven Landscape of State Rules for Tax-Credit Scholarships

• U.S. News: GAO Finds Loose Oversight of Scholarship Tax Credits

• National Education Policy Center: Review: The Effects of Means-Tested Private School Choice Programs on College Enrollment and Graduation

September 2019

• Asheville Citizen Times: W. Asheville Conservative Religious School Gets Third of Buncombe's Opportunity Scholarships

• News-Journal: Audit Finds Problems at Florida’s Step Up for Students

June 2019

• Forbes: How School Choice Undermines Democratic Processes

• NCPE Statement: Applauding IRS for the Final Rule Curtailing Tax Credit Loophole

• NCPE Letter: Urging House Appropriations Committee to Oppose Continued Funding of the DC Voucher Program

May 2019

• NCPE Letter: Opposing Tax Incentives for Private School and Homeschool Expenses

• Coalition for Military-Connected Students: Joint Statement Opposing Bill on Education Savings Accounts

• Chalkbeat: D.C. Voucher Students Don’t See Test Score Gains, but Are Less Likely to Be Frequently Absent, Latest Research Shows

• Center for American Progress: The Danger Private School Voucher Programs Pose to Civil Rights

• NOLA: As New Orleans’ Catholic School Enrollment Fell, State Vouchers Came to the Rescue

april 2019

• Education Drive: Study: After Four Years, Scores Drop Among Students in Voucher Program

• Chalkbeat: Do Voucher Students’ Scores Bounce Back After Initial Declines? New Research Says No

• Education Week: Would Betsy DeVos' Newest School Choice Idea Use 'Public Funds'?

• NCPE Letter: Urging House and Senate FSGG Subcommittees to Reject Continuation of the DC Voucher Program

• The Washington Post: Let’s Fact-Check this Betsy DeVos Tweet about Trump’s $5 Billion School Tax Credit Proposal

• Capitol Broadcasting Company: Editorial: Taxpayer-Funded Vouchers Shouldn't go to Schools that Discriminate

March 2019

• NCPE Statement: Supporting Congressional Letter for Oversight for the DC Voucher Program

• Congressional Letter: Representatives Cummings, Scott, and Norton Write Oversight Letter for the DC Voucher Program

• NCPE Statement: National Coalition for Public Education Denounces President’s Unprecedented Investment in School Vouchers in FY 2020 Budget Proposal

• Education Week: Trump Seeks 10 Percent Cut to Education Department Aid, $5 Billion for Tax-Credit Scholarships

February 2019

• NCPE Letter: Urging Senate HSGAC to Oppose Reauthorization of the DC Voucher Program

• NCPE Statement: Response to DeVos Proposal for New Private School Voucher Program

• Baraboo News Republic: Growth of Private School Voucher Program Impacts Public School Funds

January 2019

• NCPE Statement: Response to DeVos Speech About Washington D.C. Voucher Plan

• Orlando Sentinel: Scholarships for Bullied Students Get Fewer Takers than Predicted, Officials Say

• Daily Journal: Legislature Report Highlights Problems with Private School Vouchers

december 2018

• Missoulian: Montana Supreme Court: Tax Credit that Benefited Religious Schools Is Unconstitutional

• National Education Policy Center: How School Privatization Opens the Door for Discrimination

november 2018

• Education Week: Expansion of School Vouchers Gets Trounced in Arizona

• Education Week: Cosmetics and Clothes: Parents Misspent $700,000 in Arizona's School Choice Program

august 2018

• NCPE Statement: Statement on Proposed SALT Regulations

• NCPE Letter: Urging the Office of Management and Budget to Close SALT Credit Loophole

• AL.com: 57 Private Schools Dropped from AAA Scholarship Program for Lack of Accreditation

• NCPE Letter: Urging Senate to Not to Fund the Failing D.C. School Voucher Program

June 2018

• The News & Observer: Three Out of Four N.C. Voucher Schools Fail on Curriculum

• Orlando Sentinel: Schools Without Rules: Private Schools' Curriculum Downplays Slavery, Says Humans and Dinosaurs Lived Together

• Innovation Ohio: Private School Vouchers: The Ohio Lesson

 May 2018

• The Washington Post: Students in Only Federally Funded Voucher Program Perform Worse on Math

• Chalkbeat: D.C.’s Private School Voucher Program Hurt Low-Income Students’ Math Test Scores, According to Federal Study

• Omaha World-Herald: Sasse's Plan to Let Military Families Use Federal Funds for Private Education May Cost Bellevue Schools

• NCPE Letter: Urging Rules Committee to Oppose Private School Voucher Amendments to NDAA

• NCPE Letter: Opposing Private School Vouchers in NDAA

• The Hill: Military School Voucher Proposal Would Be the Wrong Approach

• The Nation: Betsy DeVos Is Facing Backlash for Her Plan to Push School Vouchers on Military Families

April 2018

• Thomas B. Fordham Institute: Conservatives' Education Bill Will Increase Federal Bureaucracy

• U.S. News & World Report: Betsy DeVos Seeks Private School Vouchers for Military Families

• Military Child Education Coalition Letter: Opposing The Education Savings Accounts for Military Families Act

• The Military Coalition Letter: Opposing H.R. 5199, The Education Savings Accounts for Military Families Act

• The Washington Post: Military Groups to DeVos: Drop Plan for Private School Vouchers. We Don’t Want Them.

March 2018

• The Journal Gazette: Cumulative Effect: Individual District Budgets Don't Fully Reflect Vouchers' Drain 

• The Washington Post: Congressional Legislation Seeks to Fund School Vouchers for Military Families — Despite Major Opposition from Military Families

• NCPE Letter: Opposing the Military Education Savings Account Act

• Military Officers Association of America: ESAs for Military Families: Too Good to Be True

• National Military Family Association: School Vouchers are Not the Answer

• Army Times: Military School Choice Plan a 'Bad Deal' for Families

February 2018

• NCPE Comments: Opposing the Department of Education's Waiver and Extension of the Project Period for the DC Voucher Program

• The Washington Post: DeVos Seeks Cuts from Education Department to Support School Choice

• NCPE Statement: Opposing Private School Voucher Proposals in President Trump's FY2019 Budget

december 2017

• NCPE Statement: Opposing Creation of an Education Savings Account Program for Military-connected Students

• The Huffington Post: These Schools Get Millions Of Tax Dollars To Discriminate Against LGBTQ Students

• The Washington Post: GAO Report Sounds Alarm About Vouchers and Students with Disabilities

• The Huffington Post: Voucher Schools Championed By Betsy DeVos Can Teach Whatever They Want. Turns Out They Teach Lies.

november 2017

• Education Week: 'There is No Oversight': Private-School Vouchers Can Leave Parents on Their Own

• NCPE Comments: 50 National Organizations Sign Comments Opposing Private School Vouchers in the Secretary's Proposed Supplemental Priorities

• NCPE Statement: Opposing Private School Voucher Amendments in the Senate Tax Bill

August 2017

• FutureEd (Georgetown University): Vouchers In D.C.: Choosing Not to Choose

• Chalkbeat: Choice for Most: In Nation’s Largest Voucher Program, $16 million Went to Schools with Anti-LGBT Policies

• Associated Press: School Choice Program Raises Questions About Accountability

• The Charlotte Observer: Vouchers Allow Low-Income Families to Attend Private Schools, But Cost Is Still a Challenge

• Scientific American: Trump Administration Advances School Vouchers Despite Scant Evidence

• The Washington Post: Trump Wants to Spend Millions More on School Vouchers. But What's Happened to the Millions Already Spent?

• Brookings: More Findings About School Vouchers and Test Scores, and They are Still Negative

• AFJ: Employee of North Carolina’s Largest Voucher School Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Nearly $400,000 in State Funds over Eight Years

• NPR: School Vouchers Get 2 New Report Cards

• Education Week: Voucher Studies in Louisiana, Indiana Show Problems in Early Years

• The Washington Post: School Voucher Recipients Lose Ground at First, Then Catch Up to Peers

• Indianapolis Star: 
  School Vouchers Study: Private School Students Don't Test Better

• NPR: Asked About Discrimination, Betsy DeVos Said This 14 Times

• The Washington Post: What We Just Learned From Betsy DeVos’s Painful Appearance Before Congress

• WAMU: Trump Administration Opens Voucher Program To More Low-Income D.C. Kids

• The Los Angeles Times Op-ed: School Vouchers Don't Just Undermine Public Schools, They Undermine Our Democracy

• Education Week: In States' Private-School Vouchers, Few Safeguards Against Discrimination

• Education Writers Association: Trump’s School Choice Plan Could Quickly Stall in Washington, Analysts Say

• Indiana State Impact: DeVos Grilled Over LGBTQ Discrimination At Bloomington Voucher School

• The New York Times: Betsy DeVos Refuses to Rule Out Giving Funds to Schools That Discriminate

• NCPE Statement: Opposing Private School Voucher Proposals in the President's Budget

• The Washington Post: DeVos Promises ‘The Most Ambitious Expansion of Education Choice in Our Nation’s History’ — But Offers No Details

• NPR: When School Vouchers Don't Offer Much Of A Choice

• AASA Report: Public Loss Private Gain: How School Voucher Tax Shelters Undermine Public Education

• NPR: For Families With Special Needs, Vouchers Bring Choices, Not Guarantees

• NPR: The Promise And Peril Of School Vouchers

• The Washington Post: Congress expected to reauthorize D.C. school vouchers in sweeping budget deal

• NCPE Statement: Expressing Disappointment that the Federal Spending Bill Includes Reauthorization of the DC Voucher Program

• The New York Times: Vouchers Found to Lower Test Scores in Washington Schools

• US News & World Report: More Bad News for Private School Choice Programs

• The Washington Post: Nation's Only Federally Funded Voucher Program Has Negative Effect on Student Achievement, Study Finds

• The New York Times: Special Ed School Vouchers May Come With Hidden Costs

• The Arizona Republic: Why Arizona officials don't know which private schools benefit from expanding voucher program

• The Washington Post: DeVos praises this voucher-like program. Here’s what it means for school reform.

• The News and Observer: DeVos Promotes School Vouchers During Fort Bragg Visit

• Teen Vogue: School Vouchers May Promote Segregation

• The Washington Post: Key Democratic Senator Outlines a Case Against School Vouchers

• New Republic: Betsy DeVos’s “School Choice” Fallacy

• The Atlantic: Do Private-School Vouchers Promote Segregation?

• U.S. News & World Report: Patty Murray Outlines Case Against Trump's School Choice Agenda

• The Huffington Post: Trump’s Signature Education Goal Has A Long History With White Flight

• NCPE Statement: NCPE Opposes the Voucher and Title I Portability Proposals in President Trump's Proposed Budget

• The Washington Post: Trump Seeks to Slash Education Department But Make Big Push for School Choice

• The Los Angeles Times: Trump Wants More Money for Vouchers, Cuts Elsewhere

• The Washington Post: GOP Lawmakers Refuse to Protect LGBT Students and Those with Disabilities in School Voucher Bill

• WAMU: House Committee Approves Bill Renewing D.C. Voucher Program

• DC Council Letter: A Majority of the Council of the District of Columbia Sends Letter to Congress Opposing the DC Voucher Program

• NCPE Letter: 62 National Organizations Sign NCPE Letter Opposing the DC Voucher Program

• Congressional Action: The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Announces Markup of the DC Voucher to be held on March 8, 2017

• Mother Jones: The Next Step in the Trump-DeVos Plan to Send Taxpayer Money to Religious Schools

• The New York Times: DeVos and Tax Credit Vouchers: Arizona Shows What Can Go Wrong

• Education Week: Two Possible Paths for a Tax-Credit School Choice Plan in Congress

• The American Prospect: How States Turn K-12 Scholarships Into Money-Laundering Schemes

• The New York Times: Ms. DeVos’s Fake History About School Choice

• The New York Times: Dismal Voucher Results Surprise Researchers as DeVos Era Begins

• The Business Insider: Trump's education secretary supports school vouchers — but studies suggest they don't help students

• Stanford News: Vouchers Do Not Improve Student Achievement, Stanford Researcher Finds

• Politico: Trump Considers Tax Credit to Channel Public Money to Private Schools

• The Washington Post: DeVos Criticized Teachers at DC School She Visited — and They Are Not Having It

• Notre Dame News: School vouchers bring more money to Catholic schools — but at a cost, study finds

• NCPE Letter: 50 National Organizations Sign NCPE Letter Opposing Private School Vouchers for Hearing in the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education

• The Hill: HELP Committee won't hold second hearing for DeVos

• The New York Times: Trump’s Pick for Education Could Face Unusually Stiff Resistance

• NCPE Letter: 66 National Organizations Sign NCPE Letter Voicing Concern Over Secretary of Education Pick Betsy DeVos

• Education Writers Association: Who Is Betsy DeVos?

• Education Week: Beyond Vouchers: How Trump Could Boost Private School Choice

• Mother Jones: Mike Pence's Voucher Program in Indiana Was a Windfall for Religious Schools

• Education Week: Why Trump's Plan for a Massive School Voucher Program Might Not Work

• The Washington Post: Trump Could Open Door to Expanding D.C. School Voucher Program, Advocates Say

• The New York Times: Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Pick, Has Steered Money From Public Schools

• The Journal Sentinel: Pocan: Concerns Over Voucher Schools Warranted

• Education Week: Private School Choice Programs Muddle Delivery of Federal Services, Says GAO

• Politico: Trump Unveils $20B School Choice Proposal

• The New York Times: Donald Trump Releases Education Proposal, Promoting School Choice

• The Washington Post: Senator seeks to stop DOJ from investigating private schools for violations of Americans with Disabilities Act

• Statement of Administration Policy: President Obama Issues SAP Opposing the Inclusion of the DC Voucher in House Appropriations Bill

May 2016

• The Brookings Institution Report: On negative effects of vouchers

• NCPE Letter: NCPE Sends Letter to House Education and Workforce Committee Opposing Private School Vouchers

• Congressional Action: The House Education and Workforce Committee Announces Hearing on "Expanding Educational Opportunity Through School Choice"