Opponents raise alarm over school vouchers in GOP budget bill

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Source: The Hill

05/16/25 6:00 AM ET


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 successful, the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) will create scholarships parents can use to send their students to private schools, available in all 50 states. Those opposed fear the damage the measure could do to public schools and disadvantaged students.

School choice advocates were giddy after finding out ECCA was put into the reconciliation package, knowing it means the legislation would only have to be passed by a simple majority of members in the House and the Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.

The National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the country, immediately reached out to representatives. “We oppose creating a $20 billion tax credit voucher scheme and allowing 529 accounts to be used for home schooling,” Marc Egan, the director of government relations for the union, wrote in a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5302600-school-vouchers-school-choice-gop-budget-bill/

[Lovie777]

1. It won't work......

many children will be overlooked, vouchers delayed, misused, never received, etc.

[RainCaster]

2. Agreed - however, it will defund many schools

This is more about taking money from the educational system than it is about offering choice. The wealthy will always send their kids to private schools, this is a simple bit of destruction and that is all.

[70sEraVet]

3. The foreseeable problems are enormous, for all involved!

The Evangelicals who HATE our public schools, will also HATE to see their tax dollars going to a religious school that is not Christian, or is even not their particular version of 'Christian'. As long as we can't have an "establishment of religion", the Constitution will continue to piss in their fundamental Cheerios.

[Nigrum Cattus]

4. Vouchers for segregated schools

Is really what we are talking about.
They don't want their little runts to "mingle" with "those" people.
Home schooling results is uneducated fools.