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Tracking the growing cost to taxpayers of private school vouchers


Tracking the growing cost to taxpayers of private school vouchers

Local taxpayers have gone from spending about $21 million on private school vouchers in 2015-16 to spending about $140 million on private schools in 2020-21.

NEW RESEARCH: The Fiscal Effects of School Choice - EdChoice

Public schools cost an average of over $17,000 per student annually, while the average cost to taxpayers for students in school choice programs ...

Early Returns: First Results from the New Wave of Public Funding of ...

The combined $4 billion in tax credits, education funds, and general revenue expenditures supporting students in universal private school choice ...

States Are Spending Billions on Private School Choice. But Is It Truly ...

That's slightly more than $7,000 per student—compared with $7,700 per pupil that public schools got from state sources in 2022. See Also. 012024 ...

Billions in taxpayer dollars now go to religious schools via vouchers

An additional 200,000 were subsidized in the rest of the country, according to tracking by EdChoice, a voucher advocacy group. That suggests a ...

3 takeaways on the growth of private school choice | K-12 Dive

FutureEd looks at eight states where 569,000 students are participating in these programs at a cost to taxpayers of $4 billion in 2023-24.

School Vouchers Would Increase Costs for Local Taxpayers

The expansion of school vouchers and associated tax credits would divert state funding from local, neighborhood public schools.

Legislative Tracker: 2024 State Private-School Choice Bills - FutureEd

727 expands the state's existing tax-credit scholarship ESA, raising ... Education to estimate the program's cost. We will continue to ...

The Myth of Cost Savings from Private School Vouchers

Because private schools can refuse to admit or provide adequate services for students with disabilities, English learners, and others who may require increased ...

State and local experience proves school vouchers are a failed ...

As of March 2023, public education advocates are tracking voucher bills in at least 24 states. As of mid-April, universal voucher bills—which ...

Parents like private school vouchers so much that demand is ...

In some states, higher-income families can now use taxpayer money to cover private school tuition -- and more people than projected are taking the offer.

In Red States, the Bill for School Voucher Bait-and-Switch Is Coming ...

Such budget-busting bills would be bad enough if these states were maintaining robust revenue streams. But as spending on private school ...

How Private School Choice Complicates Public School Budgets

Districts are seeing higher costs and fuzzier enrollment projections as more states give parents public funds for private education.

When voters had the choice, they rejected private school vouchers

The private school voucher movement was dealt a blow last week, when voters in Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska rejected ballot measures that ...

New Report Documents Explosive Growth in Private School ...

In each of the seven states highlighted, expenditures of public funds on voucher programs increased dramatically from 2008 to 2019, with growth ...

Lies, damn lies and school voucher statistics - Wisconsin Examiner

Adding together the costs of statewide vouchers with the Racine School Choice Program and the Special Needs Voucher Program for 2019-20, as I ...

Private schools increased prices to collect as much taxpayer money ...

Because some diocesan schools charged less than the voucher level, the plan also required every school to increase its tuition to the maximum ...

50-State Comparison: Private School Choice

... school choice policies specific to vouchers, education savings accounts and tax credit scholarships. Private choice programs use public ...

New MBP Analysis Shows Tax Credit School Vouchers Would ...

“Depending on the number of students who use vouchers, some districts may have to take on a large amount of fixed costs using local tax dollars.

Private school vouchers: Research to help you assess school choice ...

Last year, at least 31 states considered legislation to create or expand programs that use public money to help parents pay for a private, ...