"You may think that school vouchers reflect the basic ideological drift of the country, but for more than half a century, every single time they are put to a democratic test, the public roundly rejects them. In 2024, such initiatives were defeated in three states — Colorado, Kentucky and Nebraska — two of which also went for Trump by huge margins. This pattern is not a new one. Since 1967 — 1967! — no single state referendum in favor of school vouchers has passed anywhere in the country. And yet, in the past few decades, 33 states and the District of Columbia have all enacted voucher programs, and just in the five years since 2019 the number of American students using vouchers has doubled.
"This is not just a bad procedural look but a genuine democratic stain, made all the worse because the record of voucher programs is so abysmally bad."
David Wallace-Wells, opinion writer, criticizing the reconciliation bill for committing to establish school voucher programs across 50 states.
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