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Illinois’ AG said It’s illegal for schools to use police to ticket students. But his office told only one district

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Despite the attorney general’s declaration that Illinois schools should stop using police to discipline students, officers statewide continue to ticket kids with costly fines. One lawmaker will again pursue legislation to end the practice.

School vouchers were supposed to save taxpayer money. Instead they blew a massive hole in Arizona’s budget.

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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

Conservatives go to war—against each other—over school vouchers

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School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up some of the strongest resistance.

How an Alabama town staved off school resegregation

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In the 1970s, Black students organized protests and a boycott that cost local white businesses money. Today, many families who could afford private school still choose Thomasville’s public schools.

Illinois school districts sent kids to a for-profit out-of-state facility that isn’t vetted or monitored

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A state law was meant to help families by allowing the use of public money to fund students’ tuition at special education boarding schools around the country. But in solving one problem, lawmakers created another.

Private schools, public money: School leaders are pushing parents to exploit voucher programs

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Voucher expansions have unleashed a flood of additional taxpayer dollars to the benefit of families already enrolled in private schools. In Ohio, some schools are now “strongly encouraging” parents to apply for vouchers, regardless of need or income.

To fight absenteeism, schools turn to private companies

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With state and federal governments largely abdicating any role in getting kids back into classrooms, some schools have turned to private companies for a reimagined version of the truant officer.

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