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A Backdoor School Voucher Scheme That Sidesteps Civil Rights and Undermines Public Oversight Modern school voucher programs are often framed as a response to declining academic achievement and a way to expand “parent choice” by enabling private

"Who Profits When Public Dollars Become Private Subsidies?"
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Michael Bennet is also taking dark money and is not being transparent about their agenda. This isn't new. Not good for Colorado.
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Inside Trump's Stealth School Voucher Program: What's At Stake - Education On The Line The sweeping federal tax credit scholarship program which President Trump was able to shoehorn into his so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill" will go into effect in less than a year. It has the potential...

VOUCHERS!
The Republicans snuck a federal voucher scheme into the July budget bill. Large national scholarship groups will gain billions in tax money to send kids to relgious and private schools.
Hear two experts explain the long game to privatize education.

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Join us March 18, 6:30 MT, to hear Josh Cowen discuss "The Billionaire Playbook: How Vouchers Threaten Public Education."
Josh is a professor at Michigan State University and an expert on vouchers. @edlawcenter.bsky.social @npeaction.bsky.social
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FFRF urges governors to reject federal voucher program The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter to all state governors urging them to opt their respective states out of the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC) program, a nationwide voucher

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"Billionaire John Walton, son of Sam Walton of Wal-Mart and the richest family in the US," co-founded the nation’s two largest scholarships granting organizations...Most of their scholarships go to students who leave public schools to attend religious schools." @edlawcenter.bsky.social

Vouchers lose at the ballot box. So how do they keep winning? Vouchers lose when voters get a say, yet they keep spreading. That’s not a mystery; it’s a business plan. For 30+ years, a small circle of billionaires has funded think tanks, lobbyists, and candidate...

"Vouchers keep losing at the ballot box. So how do they keep winning?" Billionaires like the Waltons and Reed Hastings bankroll the “parent choice” machine-Lobbying, messaging for new tax-credit voucher schemes that siphon public funds. Read: tinyurl.com/38vp7cp7 @edlawcenter.bsky.social

To Reclaim School Choice, Invest in the Public Schools Families Choose Every Day For years, the national debate over “school choice” has rested on a powerful but misleading premise: that American families are eager to abandon public

"If federal and state leaders truly want to honor family choice, they should invest where the evidence is strongest and where parents’ priorities are clearest, rather than subsidizing privatization schemes that benefit the already wealthy." @ilfps.bsky.social
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A Backdoor School Voucher Scheme That Sidesteps Civil Rights and Undermines Public Oversight Modern school voucher programs are often framed as a response to declining academic achievement and a way to expand “parent choice” by enabling private

"Another consequence of turning public education dollars into private subsidies is that it creates a lucrative marketplace for the companies that manage these voucher systems." @edlawcenter.bsky.social @publiced412.bsky.social @pfpsorg.bsky.social @npeaction.bsky.social
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Jared Polis, Gov of Colorado, just pardoned Tina Peters (a 2020 election conspiracist who broke the law) at the demand of Trump

I’m shocked and sickened

"A federal school voucher program, or “universal school choice” as supporters call it, is a key piece of the Right’s agenda to dramatically change education as we’ve known it." @npeaction.bsky.social @joshcowenmi.bsky.social @edlawcenter.bsky.social
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Federal Voucher Myths This is "Federal Voucher Myths" by NPE ACTION on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Want to know what's up these days with school vouchers in Colorado? Joshua Mantell, Director of Government Affairs for the #BellPolicy Center, gives you a quick synopsis of the piece he recently wrote. Check it out. bellpolicy.org/in-the-know-...

School Choice Is About Religious Liberty, Not Just Better Test Scores America’s constitutional tradition recognizes parents as primary educators. To honor this, policymakers must safeguard private school autonomy and ensure funding follows students to their families’ ch...

Don't be fooled about the federal tax credit voucher ($1700 in 2027). This is a Republican scam so taxpayers will pay less in "federal tax" money so more kids can attend Catholic and Christian schools.

Bye bye separation of church and state in schools!
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Public Dollars, Private Control: How the Federal Voucher Tax Credit Works Learn how the federal voucher tax credit program redirects public funds to private control and limits state oversight and accountability.

The federal voucher tax credit program:
• Redirects taxpayer dollars through private SGOs
• Allows SGO's to keep 10% of the money
• Limits state oversight
• Has no statutory transparency requirements
This is not “school choice.”
It’s public dollars → private control
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Other Democratic governors are wary of new Trump school funding program. Not Polis. | Colorado Newsline Last month, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis became the first Democratic governor to opt into President Donald Trump’s federal tax credit school voucher program. In doing so, he joins 26 of the 27 Republican...

"Michael Petrilli, president of the conservative Fordham Institute, questioned why Polis opted in before the regulations were finalized, adding it is “pretty clear that the Trump administration is not going to let them narrow the scope of the program.”
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Billionaires Pave the Way for Trump’s Federal Vouchers in the School Privatization Movement Republicans have reintroduced a federal voucher bill, the “Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) act, which would provide $10 billion in annual tax credits to fund private and religious K-12...

Billionaires are behind the current federal tax credit voucher scheme that Republicans passed as a compromise to the original ECCA bill.
Public schools lose funding to private and religious schools. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/03/bill...

How the Colorado Schools Fund is setting up the case for vouchers In Colorado, the Colorado Schools Fund, is quietly playing a pivotal role in shaping not just the charter school movement but also the narrative, policy environment and political groundwork required f...

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A Constitutional Test for Colorado’s Public Schools | Federal Voucher Tax Credit Colorado has been entered into a federal school voucher tax credit program. See why it may conflict with Colorado’s constitutional protections for public education.

Colorado just got pulled into a federal #voucher tax credit program that may conflict with our state Constitution.
If the federal government forgives your taxes to fund religious schools, that’s not charity.That’s public money! @coloradotimesrecorder.com @coloradonewsline.com @npeaction.bsky.social

Other Democratic governors are wary of new Trump school funding program. Not Polis. | Colorado Newsline Last month, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis became the first Democratic governor to opt into President Donald Trump’s federal tax credit school voucher program. In doing so, he joins 26 of the 27 Republican...

"The Walton Family Foundation has since spent billions of dollars nationwide supporting charter schools and voucher initiatives." @workingfamiliesco.bsky.social @pro-co-public-ed.bsky.social @coloradotimesrecorder.com @joshcowenmi.bsky.social
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Opt Out Defunding public education is the real result–and maybe the goal–of voucher programs.

"While the new law allows public school students to use vouchers for a range of supplemental supports, it is clear that the vast majority of the voucher funds will be used to subsidize tuition payments at private and religious schools."

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Jeannie Kaplan honored by Denver School Board On January 22, 2026, the Denver Board of Education honored former two-term board member Jeannie Kaplan with a proclamation dedicated to her…

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"Weiser:
I would opt out of the program. While I welcome any support for education and investing in our kids’ future, I will never support vouchers. That includes any measures that siphon off scarce public K-12 school dollars to benefit private and parochial schools. That’s why I am a “no” here."

Trump’s New Voucher Tax Credit Isn’t About Tax Relief—It’s About The Future Of Public Education Buried in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a modest tax credit signals a larger shift federally toward school privatization as public schools remain underfunded.

"The federal voucher tax credit... signals a clear shift in priorities. Instead of fully funding public schools, the federal government is experimenting with privatization — even as classrooms remain under-resourced and students’ needs go unmet."
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YouTube video by Invest In Education Invest in Education Foundation - Empowering Parents. Putting Kids First.

Colorado's Democratic Governor Polis joins with Trump and Republicans to support VOUCHERS for students to attend private and religious schools.@npeaction.bsky.social @publicedpartners.bsky.social @pfpsorg.bsky.social @derekwblack.bsky.social @joshcowenmi.bsky.social
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YouTube video by ProPublica Inside the Trump Administration’s Plan to Change Public Education

WATCH this video to see how the Trump administration and their backers are moving to "shrink public school systems by steering taxpayer dollars to private, religious and charter schools, as well as options like homeschooling." @publicedpartners.bsky.social
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Federal Voucher Program Explained: What the Voucher Scheme Means for Public Education A federal voucher program is now federal law. It creates a nationwide system of dollar-for-dollar tax credits that redirect public resources to private and religious schools. Governors must decide whe...

The federal voucher program is now law.
The Federal Tax Credit Voucher Program creates 100% tax credits that redirect public resources to private and religious schools…if governors choose to opt in.

Here’s how it works and why it matters:
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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"A NEW REPORT makes clear that vouchers are being used to benefit private schools that...benefit some of the wealthiest families in America. Trump’s voucher program will only make a bad situation even worse.”@publicedpartners.bsky.social @npeaction.bsky.social
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