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Texas’s Voucher Program Worries Me.............................................................................. 5  \nFocus: The Great Georgia School Funding Gap Widens ........................................6  \nVoucher Scam Georgia Opts into Federal Voucher Program as Public Schools  \nFace Funding Strain ................................................................ 7  \nThe Federal Voucher Program  \nDoubling Down on Harming Students and Public Schools  \nBy Morgan Craven, J.D.  \nThe July 2025 budget reconciliation bill (aka the Big Beautiful Bill Act) included a federal private school voucher program that, like other voucher programs, could siphon billions of public tax dollars away from public services  \nthat benefit millions of children and families, for the benefit of a select few individual families.  \nThe federal voucher program is a threat to public education and to the diverse students and families in our public schools.  \nBeginning in the 2027 tax year, the federal program will provide a dollar-for-dollar tax credit to individuals who donate to scholarshipgranting organizations (SGOs). These organizations provide vouchers to families to send their children to private schools and/or cover other educational expenses, like tutoring, uniforms, transportation or supplies.  \nThese vouchers will be available to families whose household income is less than 300% of the area median income, opening them up to 90% of families, some with incomes of more than halfa million dollars (PFPS, 2026).  \nThe law caps eligible individual contributions for the tax credit at $1,700 per year. But the law provides no cap on funding for the program, potentially costing tens of billions of dollars in federal tax dollars each year (Davis, 2025).  \nThis is taxpayer money that will no longer be available for public use on public goods, including programs that serve children and families across the country. And, unless federal or state regulations prohibit it, the federal program could allow significant funds to be concentrated in single communities.  \nFor example, a religious community that operates a private school receiving vouchers could also act as an SGO. Parishioners in a Catholic community, for instance, could donate to their SGO and receive the tax credit. The diocese that operates their local Catholic churches could then use the money to fund its own schools and collect the 10% administrative funds for SGOs the law allows.  \nIn this scenario, all money that would otherwise be paid into the public coffers would stay within that single religious community, to the detriment of the public and the public schools that serve the majority of children around it.  \nMany details of how the vouchers will operate will be outlined in yet-to-be-released federal and state regulations. In a public comment submitted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding these regulations, IDRA noted the inherent harms of voucher programs and urged transparency, accountability and oversight. However, those critical elements tend tobe at odds with voucher program design.(cont. on Page 2)  \nThe massive diversion of funds weakens educational opportunities for the majority of children who attend public schools in this country.  \nM a r c h 2026 i d r a n e ws l e tt er 1  \nFocus: The Great Voucher Scam    \n(The Federal Voucher Program, continued from Page 1)  \nA growing body of evidence documenting the negative impact of state vouchers demonstrates the harms that can be caused to students and the public schools that lose much-needed public resources. The expansion of these programs through the federal voucher will divert public funds away from public programs and allow them to be used in ways that undermine civil rights protections, weaken public education systems, and exacerbate longstanding ","cbCailk5spGrSUCS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailk5spGrSUCS","pdf",1011586,"English","# Vouchers Facilitate Publicly Funded Discrimination\n# My Child is Starting Kindergarten. Texas’s Voucher Program Worries Me\n# Focus: The Great Georgia School Funding Gap Widens\n# The Federal Voucher Program\n## Doubling Down on Harming Students and Public Schools\n## Federal-State Voucher Program Double Dipping\n## Heightened Harms to Students and Public Schools","[{\"question\":\"What federal voucher policy changes are described in the newsletter?\",\"answer\":\"The article describes a federal private school voucher program funded through a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations (SGOs).\"},{\"question\":\"How does the program’s design potentially affect public education funding?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that public tax dollars would be diverted away from public services and education, reducing resources available for children and families in public schools.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the newsletter mean by “double dipping” with state voucher programs?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that individuals can potentially benefit from both federal and state voucher programs, depending on whether states opt in, which can further strain education resources.\"}]","IDRA Newsletter - Vol LIII, No. 3 - March 2026 - Vouchers Facilitate Publicly Funded Discrimination | PDF",1792054265]