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Out today: “Just in this most recent biennium, the state paid $10 billion to charter schools, and that’s at a direct expense to the money going to public school districts … and now districts are also bracing themselves for the anticipated impact of losing students to private schools.” https://www.texasobserver.org/school-closures-across-texas-not-local-failure/

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School Closures Are Escalating Across Texas. 'It's Not a Local Failure.'

State funding and policy have fallen short, advocates say, and the consequences are not confined to your backyard.

The Texas Observer

Zougla.gr Jun 10

#vouchers #γεωγραφική_κατανομή Κοινωνικός Τουρισμός: «Παράθυρο» για 30.000 επιπλέον vouchers https://www.zougla.gr/money/forologika/koinonikos-tourismos-parathyro-gia-30-000-epipleon-vouchers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Home • Missouri Independent [Unofficial]Jun 1

Herzog didn’t join defense of Vivek Malek’s oversight of Missouri voucher program

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://missouriindependent.com/2026/06/01/herzog-didnt-join-defense-of-vivek-maleks-oversight-of-missouri-voucher-program/

Herzog didn't join defense of Vivek Malek’s oversight of Missouri voucher program • Missouri Independent

The MOScholars program's largest partner, the Herzog Tomorrow Foundation, stayed out of a push backing the state treasurer's administration.

Missouri Independent

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Tim Mak May 31

#NEWS OF THE #DAY

OCCUPIED #CRIMEA INTRODUCES #GAS #vouchers : Starting #May 31, a voucher-based fuel #distribution system is being introduced in Crimea, according to the head of the #Russian #administration in the occupied #peninsula

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/77169

Crimea Imposes Strict Gasoline Rationing as Land Corridor Collapse Sparks Fuel Crisis

Occupation authorities in Crimea have officially capped A-95 gasoline sales at 20 liters per day per person due to an acute fuel shortage.

Kyiv Post

FediBoard Travel May 31

Your travel voucher may be worth less than you think
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/31/your-travel-voucher-may-be-worth-less-than-you-thi/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FTHE+TRAVEL+EXCHANGE+3.0
Your flight is canceled. Your hotel loses your reservation. Your car rental company runs out of vehicles. So what does the company do? It reaches into …
#travel #vouchers #stories

Econopass May 31

#travel #vouchers #stories

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/31/your-travel-voucher-may-be-worth-less-than-you-thi/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Your travel voucher may be worth less than you think

Your flight is canceled. Your hotel loses your reservation. Your car rental company runs out of vehicles.

The Spokesman-Review

Texas Observer May 27

From our magazine: GOP legislators repeatedly insisted that “Texas Education Freedom Accounts” would be open to any and all types of private schools—of all creeds and persuasions.

In predictable fashion, they haven't quite lived up to that promise. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/

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School Vouchers Are What We Thought They Were

The nascent "freedom accounts" program is, predictably, burdened by Republicans’ insistence on religious discrimination—and likely set to benefit those already outside the public school system.

The Texas Observer

G Kearney May 21

Voucher programs fail rural schools #vouchers #schools #rural #cartoon #gregkearney #kearney

Home • Missouri Independent [Unofficial]May 15

Missouri senators vote to remove private school voucher program from treasurer’s office

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://missouriindependent.com/2026/05/15/missouri-senators-vote-to-remove-private-school-voucher-program-from-treasurers-office/

Missouri senators vote to remove private school voucher program from treasurer’s office • Missouri Independent

The Missouri Senate approved an education bill that proposes moving the MOScholars voucher program out of the State Treasurer's Office.

Missouri Independent

Home • Missouri Independent [Unofficial]May 15

Archbishop’s call helps sink oversight changes to Missouri private school voucher program

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://missouriindependent.com/2026/05/15/archbishops-call-helps-sink-oversight-changes-to-missouri-private-school-voucher-program/

Archbishop’s call helps sink oversight changes to Missouri private school voucher program • Missouri Independent

A proposal to move oversight of a voucher program to Missouri's education department was scrapped after pressure from a St. Louis archbishop.

Missouri Independent