Indianapolis Schools Have Been Privatized: What Cities Are Next After over a decade of whittling away at opposition, the Mind Trust of Indianapolis has managed to privatize the entire public school system of Indianapolis.

Is Denver, San Antonio, Philadelphia, Atlanta, St. Louis, Oakland, Camden, or D.C. next? @publicedpartners.bsky.social @npeaction.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social @network4pubed.bsky.social @pfpsorg.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social
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Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost - Network For Public Education Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning,  presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures plaguing the charter school sector as it enters its fourth decade. The report, published by the National Center for Charter School Accountability, documents that in the first half of 2025 alone, 50 […]

There is no Charter School “million-student waitlist.”
There are empty classrooms, declining enrollment, and schools closing mid-year. #CharterMythBusted

Stop the waste. Start the reckoning.

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Other Democratic governors are wary of new Trump school funding program. Not Polis. | Colorado Newsline Last month, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis became the first Democratic governor to opt into President Donald Trump’s federal tax credit school voucher program. In doing so, he joins 26 of the 27 Republican...

Federal VOUCHER update: Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Kentucky, New Mexico Governors say NO to vouchers! Nearly 30 Senators say REPEAL the vouchers! But the wealthy want them for religious and private schools!
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Senators Kelly and Hirono introduce a bill to repeal Trump's private school voucher program.
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Kansas governor vetoes tax credit programs for private schools  • Kansas Reflector Gov. Laura Kelly told Legislators to focus on funding special education instead of giving private school tax credits.

Kansas Governor says NO to federal vouchers for private schools. If only POLIS showed the same support for PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Trump's VOUCHER scheme will "lead to racial, economic, and social isolation of students and weaken or destroy the public school system.”
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Hobbs vetoes proposal to opt Arizona into tax credit program to fund private school scholarships Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill on Monday which would have opted Arizona into a federal tax credit program to fund private school scholarships.

If only Colorado's "democratic" Governor had the courage to support PUBLIC EDUCATION like Arizona's governor. She said NO to Trump's voucher scheme!

“We have seen what happens when these types of programs lack accountability, transparency, and oversight."
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House tax committee kills federal tax credit for independent schools - Vermont Daily Chronicle One Big Beautiful Bill gives scholarship donors $1700 federal tax credit - but Dem majority doesn’t want it

If only Colorado's Dems could follow Vermont's lead and overrule Polis's misguided decision to opt in to Trump's federal school voucher scheme. @publicedpartners.bsky.social @pfpsorg.bsky.social @edlawcenter.bsky.social @jackschneider.bsky.social
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Voucher expansion defies logic and Tennessee voters • Tennessee Lookout Tennessee's legislators seem determined to push forward on school vouchers, despite evidence that such programs are costly and ineffective.

"Voters have rejected every statewide private voucher or education tax credit initiative since 1970. Washington, Oregon, Kentucky, Maryland & Arizona voters each have done so once. Michigan, Nebraska, Utah & California have rejected these items twice. Colorado voters have rejected vouchers 3 times"

Inside the Trump Administration’s Plan to Change Public Education YouTube video by ProPublica

ProPublica reporters Jennifer Smith Richards and Megan O’Matz expose a concerted push to shrink public school systems by steering taxpayer dollars to private, religious and charter schools, as well as options like homeschooling. @edlawcenter.bsky.social
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"How the Federal Tax Credit School Voucher Creates Opportunities for Discrimination" @edlawcenter.bsky.social @npeaction.bsky.social @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social @jennycohn.bsky.social @jeffbinnc.bsky.social @palan57.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social

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The federal tax credit voucher SCHEME is NOT free money and NOT designed by the billionaire-backed voucher cabal to help PUBLIC school students. @publicedpartners.bsky.social @pfpsorg.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social @npeaction.bsky.social @jennycohn.bsky.social

Vouchers lose at the ballot box. So how do they keep winning? Vouchers lose when voters get a say, yet they keep spreading. That’s not a mystery; it’s a business plan. For 30+ years, a small circle of billionaires has funded think tanks, lobbyists, and candidates to paint public schools as “failing,” push charters as the exit ramp, and now turbocharge vouchers through a new federal tax credit that moves public dollars into private control with few guardrails.

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The Federal Voucher Program Is a Costly Illusion Voucher advocates present the upcoming federal program as a win for students, families, public schools, and local governments. In reality, private schools and current private school families will be t...

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools:

“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

(Published October 2025)

Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Do Today's Kids Have Reduced Attention Spans?

Educators have observed students' attention spans getting shorter and shorter. This new American Educator article explores the evidence behind tech's impact on kids' motivation and boredom, and offers insights on how we can get kids back to focusing again.
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The unintended consequences of supporting corporate education reforms, instead of students:
• No meaningful reduction in achievement gaps
• Curriculum narrowed; instruction weakened
• Students disengaged from learning
• At-risk population increased by 118%
• Youth mental health worsening

“Free Money” or Public School Heist? The Truth About Federal School Vouchers The Trump White House is selling the federal school voucher scheme as a historicopportunity for “school choice and education freedom.” This first ever federal school voucher is being marketed as “free...

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"Charter School Reckoning" YouTube video by Ohio Education Association

If you care about PUBLIC EDUCATION, this video is a MUST Watch!
The current "push for school vouchers" is directly related to the corporate BILLIONAIRE-backed charter school movement that has been causing chaos in school districts across the country.
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The Billionaire Playbook: How Vouchers Threaten Public Education YouTube video by Advocates for Public Education Policy

The federal tax credit scholarship is a VOUCHER promoted by billionaires and far-right conservative groups.
Josh Cowen discusses how vouchers are for the wealthy and part of the plan to privatize education by promoting private and religious schools.
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MAGA Promotes “Same Old” Dangerous School Vouchers with a New “Culture War” Frame While every morning, 90 percent of U.S. children—our children, our grandchildren, and our neighbors’ children—go off to a public school which we expect will welcome them all, our …

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1.1K views · 210 reactions | I support public education and am committed to investing in our kids’ future. That’s why I am a firm no on Trump’s federal tax credit program that threatens to divert public K-12 funding to private schools. Coloradans want a Governor who’s clear-eyed about supporting public education - not someone who wants to wait to see what regulations Trump may propose. #Philforgovernor #COpolitics | Phil Weiser I support public education and am committed to investing in our kids’ future. That’s why I am a firm no on Trump’s federal tax credit program that threatens to divert public K-12 funding to private...

Phil Weiser is a firm NO on Trump’s federal tax credit program that threatens to divert public K-12 funding to private schools.
Coloradans want a Governor who’s clear-eyed about supporting public education. He will opt OUT of this voucher scheme.
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Join us March 18, 6:30 p.m. MDT to hear Josh Cowen discuss "The Billionaire Playbook: How Vouchers Threaten Public Education."
Josh is a professor at Michigan State University and an expert on vouchers.
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Gov. Andy Beshear: Here’s why I proudly vetoed the backdoor school voucher bill | Opinion OpEd: School choice is effectively an enormous diversion of tax dollars away from our rural communities to more affluent areas in cities.

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Audit analysis shows DPS has carried more obligations than assets for two decades Denver Public Schools has carried more obligations than unrestricted assets since at least 2005 — limiting the district’s financial flexibility for nearly two decades, a Denver Gazette analysis of dis...

Bennet touts his executive experience as head of DPS, but his term was controversial. @philweiser.bsky.social has lead the AGs office for 8 yrs, knows state gov inside and out, and always receives the highest marks for employee satisfaction. #PhilforGovernor www.denvergazette.com/2026/03/13/a...

"They see vouchers as a failure of democracy, with billionaire donors and super PACs replacing ‘we the people.’" @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social @publicedpartners.bsky.social @edlawcenter.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @joshcowenmi.bsky.social
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Public schools for private gain: The declining American commitment to serving the public good  - Kappan Online 4.5 (2) When schooling comes to be viewed mainly as a source of private benefit, both schools and society suffer grave consequences.    We Americans tend to talk about public schooling as though we kn...

In light of the oligarchic times we are in, and the growing rush to privatize our public education system through federal vouchers, this article by David Larabee is especially prescient. @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social
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Dr. Mike DeGuire: The Public Doesn’t Want Vouchers. Why Are They Spreading? Dr. Mike DeGuire is a lifelong educator who served as a principal of a public school in Denver. Now retired, he has assumed an active role in fighting privatization. The dirty little secret of the …

Dr. Mike DeGuire: The Public Doesn't Want Vouchers. Why Are They Spreading? - Vouchers aren’t winning because voters love them. In fact, they keep losing at the ballot box. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/11/d... via @dianeravitch #Privatization

Join us March 18, 6:30 MT, to hear Josh Cowen discuss "The Billionaire Playbook: How Vouchers Threaten Public Education."
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Colorado’s tax‑credit scholarships quietly shift public power toward private education Colorado tax-credit scholarships reshape state policy, raising human rights issues in private school funding shift.

The new federal tax credit school VOUCHER "quietly cedes public authority to private donors and SGOs."
Colorado legislators hope to address the inherent discrimination in this VOUCHER scam passed by the Republican Congress.
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Can vouchers be far behind?