Every dollar invested in a voucher scheme is a dollar drained from our public schools.
Vouchers take money from public school classrooms and put them into private and parochial schools that are not accountable to any public control or oversight. Voucher programs are not required to give the same protections or rights public schools must provide students and employees. Schools accepting vouchers can reject students based on academics, gender, disability, national origin, and religion. Americans value public education and want it protected and improved. Only 23 percent favor finding an alternative to the existing school system.