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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Apr 27, 2025, 11:16 AM Apr 27

Republican-led states keep adding school voucher programs even as critics worry about cost [View all]

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Source: AP

Updated 12:08 AM EDT, April 27, 2025


State lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to use more taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuitions and homeschooling expenses even as they try to figure out how to budget in a time of economic uncertainty.

A $1 billion-per-year voucher program the Texas Legislature sent to the governor last week and a longshot push in Congress to expand vouchers nationally, including to states that have rejected them, are focusing attention on the issue.

In states that already have programs to pay private education costs for most students, the expense has quickly gobbled up more of their budgets as revenue growth has slowed or stalled.

Besides Texas, Tennessee adopted a program this year, and North Dakota gave serious consideration to one before a veto last week likely ended its prospects this year.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/vouchers-scholarships-state-budgets-9b11a30169b7bbfdb79520e45af01222

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