An AP investigation reports that the rapid growth of school-choice scholarship programs is increasingly benefiting students who are already enrolled in private schools. The report finds that in more states, public funds can be used for private education through tax-credit and voucher-style scholarship programs, expanding eligibility for families seeking alternatives to traditional public schooling.
The coverage notes that, soon, about half of American schoolchildren will live in states that provide some form of public money for private education. While advocates present the programs as expanding options for families, the AP findings emphasize that the distribution of scholarship benefits does not primarily shift students from public to private schools. Instead, a larger share of recipients are described as coming from private-school backgrounds.
The Independent and Winnipeg Free Press both publish the same AP Exclusive story and present the same core findings about where scholarship money is going and how quickly the policy landscape is changing across U.S. states.
