Voters Rejected School Vouchers In Three States

USA Today reports:

Multiple efforts that supported giving parents public funds to spend on private or alternative schools fared poorly in the 2024 election.

Voters rejected separate proposals in Colorado and Kentucky aiming to add language supporting school choice, an issue that has divided parents and school staffers across the nation for years, to their states’ constitutions.

And voters in Nebraska chose to repeal a $10 million school voucher program passed by its state legislature earlier this year, which aimed to help private school families with state funding.

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Small comfort now, but vouchers went 0-3 on state ballots.

100’s of thousands of Trump voters voted against school vouchers.

In KY, Trump won 65-35 but vouchers *lost* by the same margin—losing all 120 counties.

In the reddest wave in decades, voters still rejected vouchers. pic.twitter.com/ykah3UYJDo

— Josh Cowen (@joshcowenMSU) November 6, 2024