State lawmakers could add more private school voucher funding this year in response to record demand for the Opportunity Scholarship program. The N.C. State Education Assistance Authority notified families of the 72,000 new Opportunity Scholarship applicants on Friday that there’s not enough money to offer most of them vouchers. Most of the new scholarships for […]
South Carolina remains on course to dole out its first round of education scholarships this summer, even as a lawsuit over the state’s controversial new voucher law hangs over its head. The parents of nearly 8,000 students from every county in the state — and some from out-of-state — applied for the $6,000 scholarships during […]
This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune. Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday urged school voucher supporters to make the final push in the May primary runoff elections to bring a pro-school voucher majority to the Texas House. Delivering the opening speech at an annual conservative policy conference in Austin, Abbott declared that the […]
BIG COUNTRY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) — In this week’s Big Country Politics Sunday conversation, House District 72 State Representative Drew Darby discussed what the future of school vouchers and rural Texas could look like. Darby represents the Concho Valley area as well as Runnels and Coleman counties in the Big Country region. He won against Stormy […]
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has proposed a new statewide voucher program that would offer $7,075 in public funds to 20,000 students to attend a private, independent school or to be used to support home schooling. As education researchers and experts on school choice, we have questions and concerns. A key argument supporting vouchers is that […]
Lexington will soon become the second city in Kentucky to ban landlords from discriminating against people who use federal housing vouchers and alternative forms of payment to pay rent. The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council voted 13–2 to pass the ordinance after months of debate. Under the ordinance, the Lexington-Fayette County Human Rights Commission would investigate […]
North Carolina is about to see record expansion in the number of students who get taxpayer funded vouchers to attend private schools. For the first time in the state’s history, any family can apply for an Opportunity Scholarship to cover K-12 private school costs, regardless of their income. The initial response has been large, with […]
Over 1,700 Ukrainians have already received state-funded education vouchers as of Feb. 13, 2024, the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine said in a press release. An education voucher is a document that grants certain categories of citizens the right to free education in specified professions and specialties at educational institutions. […]
Ohio is paying more students to attend private schools than ever before − thanks to a change in state law and concerted marketing from non-public schools. Ohio has awarded more than 82,000 vouchers for private school students for the 2023-2024 school year − triple the number of scholarships doled out in previous years, according to […]
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — With the final gavel of the year in the Capitol chambers, special session four came to close Tuesday without passing Gov. Greg Abbott’s priorities regarding school safety, teacher pay, education savings accounts, and an election bill. This stagnation was mostly attributable to the proposal to subsidize private schools through education savings accounts, […]
Feb. 10—The local public housing authority is going to open a waiting list for federal Section 8 housing vouchers next week for the first time in two years, but applicants may have a long wait ahead for assistance if they can get it at all. Voucher recipients in Montgomery County last year waited about 13 […]
NEW YORK — The Adams administration is launching a new initiative that aims to use city vouchers for homeless New Yorkers to create subsidized housing in market-rate buildings. Under the program first reported by POLITICO, nonprofits contracting with the city can lease buildings from private landlords for up to nine years, before renting those apartments […]