How Public School Students Are Harmed
By Hilary Wething
Universal voucher programs for schools are rapidly expanding across the country. Under these programs, states give parents stipends to either homeschool their children or send them to private school. As a policy tool, school vouchers have a long and questionable history. Following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954, several Southern states used vouchers to undermine school integration efforts, with states offering voucher programs to enable parents of white children to afford segregated private schools.
Starting in the 1990s, many states enacted “modern” voucher programs with the claim of supporting students with special needs or students in low-income districts, offering a small number of these students pathways to private school.
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