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This morning at about 2:15 am, Senator Hirono, along with Senators Reed, Kaine and van Hollen, presented an amendment on the floor of the Senate to strike the voucher section altogether. That ...
Six years after enforcing a tax on air travel, Sweden is reversing course as the government seeks to revive the country’s ailing commercial aviation industry.
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.
Over the course of the school voucher program’s first eight months, Utah families collectively used their $8,000 vouchers on more than 7,300 different vendors, including schools and businesses.
The Supreme Court allowed school vouchers to be used for religious education in 2002. The court said that vouchers do not violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, ...
“School vouchers are increasingly eating up state budgets in a way that I don’t think is sustainable long term,” said Whitney Tucker, director of state fiscal policy research at the Center ...
The proposal — which would create scholarships of up to $5,000 per student — marks the farthest that proponents of school vouchers have ever gotten toward expanding school vouchers nationwide.
Opponents of school vouchers are raising concerns as House Republicans attempt to push through federal legislation in their “big, beautiful bill” advancing President Trump’s agenda. If ...
Applications for Tennessee's new school vouchers, known as Education Freedom Scholarships, open May 15. Here's what to know and how to apply.
Private school vouchers and other school choice programs have expanded rapidly in the U.S. in recent years, fueled by parents’ frustrations with public schools and conservative lawmakers’ demands for ...
The Dismal Science Sweden’s School Choice Disaster Advocates for school choice might be shocked to see how badly the country’s experiment with vouchers failed.