A Republican governor signed the Texas Dream Act in 2001 with bipartisan support. In 2025 the Justice Department sued, Paxton's office agreed the law was illegal, and a judge struck it down before anyone who relied on it could be heard. The DOJ has now sued 21 states.
Wonder school's expenses beat its revenue in five of six years. The Lahns propped it up with $615,000 in loans, and the debt reached $4.5 million. They are the school's officers, its only publicly disclosed trustees, and its largest creditor — a conflict Wonder has disclosed to the IRS every year since 2021.
Constituents protested outside Carey's Columbus office over his vote for Trump's budget bill. The event's organizers counted 12% of households in Ohio's 15th District on SNAP and $40.4 million in special education funding at risk. Carey's office did not respond to a request for comment.
Abbott wants a law banning Texas public schools from sponsoring H-1B visas — applied to teachers already here, not just new hires. Districts use those visas to fill critical teacher shortages, in roles such as bilingual education.
Arkansas expects 50,000 kids on Educational Freedom Accounts this year, at a cost of more than $367 million — ten times what the program cost in year one. Only 12% of participants came from a public school.
Finstad's letter was built on a footnote in a 2022 school board document that was never voted on. He sent it to a state agency with no authority over curriculum, and never called the school district at all.
A former Little Rock superintendent spent two years predicting exactly how Arkansas's voucher program would go. In what he says may be his last column, he explains why the rising test scores in the governor's press release don't mean what she says they mean.
A legislative panel just approved a study of a $100 million state tax credit for private school and homeschool families — on top of the up to $379 million Arkansas has approved for vouchers this year, and on top of the new federal one. Even a conservative school choice group says no.
Hidden in Trump's budget bill is the first federal private school voucher in American history — a tax credit that pays donors back 100 cents on the dollar, with no ceiling on the total. Congress's scorekeepers say $26 billion. One analysis says $51 billion a year.