These developments may reinforce two big problems with vouchers aside from their poor record of improving educational results.

Concerned parents are feeling better about their schools even as pre-pandemic problems like bullying weigh more heavily on families who are seeking easier access to mental health care.

While some educators defend transfers as a gentler alternative to expulsion, critics say these moves have limited or no due process protections and can carry the same problems associated with expulsion by disrupting a child’s education.

Thanks to an anonymous donor, Holland Public Schools will offer 10 teachers $25,000 each year to help purchase a house within the district as long as they commit to teaching there for five years.