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The Mounting Trouble with Education Savings Accounts

Policy Brief

Samuel E. Abrams

April 17, 2025

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NEPC Review: Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Maria M. Lewis and Julie F. Mead

April 8, 2025

Report Unsuccessfully Attempts to Present a Convincing Fiscal Argument for Voucher Programs

February 11, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: The Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America Through FY 2022 (EdChoice, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

February 11, 2025

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The Fiscal Impacts of Expanded Voucher Programs and Charter-School Growth on Public Schools: Recommendations for Sustaining Adequate and Equitable School Finance Systems

Policy Brief

David S. Knight and David E. DeMatthews

November 21, 2024

Report Reiterates False Claims Overstating Voucher Benefits

November 12, 2024

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NEPC Review: Pennsylvania’s Education Tax Credit Scholarships: How EITC Serves Children and Families in the Commonwealth (Commonwealth Foundation, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 12, 2024

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How Can States Make School Voucher Systems More Accountable, Accessible, and Transparent?

Policy Brief

Joshua Cowen and Ryan D. Nowak

October 3, 2024

Bringing More Accountability, Access, and Transparency to School Voucher Systems

October 3, 2024

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NEPC Review: Helping Families Navigate the Changing Education Landscape (Cato Institute, June 2024)

NEPC Review

Huriya Jabbar

September 10, 2024

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Strengthening Oversight of Education Savings Account (ESA) Funding for Private and At-Home Schooling

Policy Brief

Luis A. Huerta and Trevor Baisden

September 5, 2024

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Selling Water to a Whale? Jay-Z’s Support for Vouchers in PA

Newsletter

June 27, 2024

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South Carolina Amicus Brief: Eidson v. South Carolina Department of Education

Resource Document

June 24, 2024

Yes, Recent Voucher Expansions Mostly Support Students Who Never Attended Public Schools—Costing Taxpayers

May 2, 2024

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NEPC Review: The Reality of Switchers (EdChoice, March 2024)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

May 3, 2024

This April 1st, Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction?

Newsletter

April 1, 2024

NEPC Review: K-12 School Choice Calculator (Reason Foundation and EdChoice, January 2024)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

March 19, 2024

ICYMI: NEPC’s Top Newsletters of 2023

Newsletter

January 25, 2024

NEPC Review: The Cost-Effectiveness of Wisconsin’s Private School Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin, September 2023)

NEPC Review

Stephen Kotok

December 12, 2023

Report’s Claims of Voucher Success Undermined by Flawed Methodology and Limited Research Basis

December 12, 2023

NEPC Talks Education: The Impact of School Choice and Vouchers on K-12 Students and Public Schools

November 16, 2023

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Christopher Lubienski and Suzanne Eckes About School Choice and Vouchers

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Christopher Lubienski, and Suzanne E. Eckes

November 16, 2023

Are These Vouchers on Steroids a Trainwreck in Slow Motion?

Newsletter

November 7, 2023

Talking About Vouchers

FYI

Joshua Cowen

October 13, 2023

Simplistic Analysis of School Voucher Studies Results in an Incomplete and Misleading Report

October 12, 2023

NEPC Review: The 123s of School Choice: What the Research Says About Private School Choice Programs in America, 2023 Edition (EdChoice, June 2023)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

October 12, 2023

Webinar: The School Voucher Illusion

Newsletter

October 10, 2023

NEPC Review: Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit: Economic Analysis (Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts, June 2023)

NEPC Review

David S. Knight

September 27, 2023

How Much Do You Know About School Vouchers?

Newsletter

May 25, 2023

Evidence That Vouchers Are Cannibalizing Public School Budgets

Newsletter

March 9, 2023

Report on Ohio Vouchers Overstates Benefits and Downplays Negatives

February 21, 2023

NEPC Review: The Ohio EdChoice Program’s Impact on School District Enrollments, Finances, and Academics (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, December 2022)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

February 21, 2023

NEPC Review: #StudentsFirst: Empowering Parents to Help Students Regain Lost Learning (The Buckeye Institute, September 2022)

NEPC Review

David S. Knight

November 22, 2022

Omisión y Confusión: Six Ways Schools of Choice Advertise Their Approach to Teaching Emerging Bilinguals

Newsletter

October 25, 2022

The Supreme Court May Be About to Drop Another Bombshell

May 12, 2022

The Outsourcing of Discrimination: Another SCOTUS Earthquake?

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

May 12, 2022

Four Ways School Choice Worsens Segregation

Newsletter

April 21, 2022

Another Report Misleadingly Touts Cost Savings From Voucher Programs

March 15, 2022

NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: Analyzing the Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America (EdChoice, November 2021)

NEPC Review

Luis A. Huerta and Steven J. Koutsavlis

March 15, 2022

NEPC Review: Accountability and Private-School Choice (Manhattan Institute, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Jack Schneider

November 16, 2021

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