Just 10 private schools received more than $60 million in Arkansas taxpayer funds in the 2025-26 school year through the state's school choice program, Arkansas Department of Education data shows.
Most of the students receiving South Carolina’s state-funded private school scholarships this school year already were being taught outside of the public education system, the S.C. Department of Education told a state representative.
Tennessee Republicans want to drop all enrollment caps and expand eligibility to the state’s initial voucher program, effectively merging Tennessee’s two voucher programs as Gov. Bill Lee pushes lawmakers to provide state dollars to all families who applied to the Education Freedom Scholarships program this year.
Arkansas lawmakers head to Little Rock to debate a proposed $6.7 billion state budget that includes a noteworthy expansion of our private school and homeschool voucher program, but no new investment in our state’s chronically underfunded public schools.
Kentucky’s Republican-controlled House and Senate overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill that would opt the state into a program of education grants for K-12 students promoted by the Trump administration and benefiting from a new federal tax credit.
Mississippi will not expand its school voucher program to use public tax dollars for private school tuition after the Mississippi Senate Education Committee killed the House’s massive education package.
As the country awaits federal rulemaking from the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) that will provide guidance to the federal voucher tax credit (FVTC) program, many Southern governors have already opted in.
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