NEA Resources

NEA Policy Brief on Vouchers

Vouchers: What Is at Stake? (PDF, 164KB, 4 pp)
This NEA policy brief emphasizes our belief that great public schools are a civil right for every child. Vouchers do not improve the achievement of students who use them, and they do nothing to improve public schools. Instead, vouchers leave most children behind, especially those with special needs, and they create a need for additional bureaucracy to administer and monitor such programs. Fall 2009.

Evaluations of Existing Voucher Programs

School Vouchers: The Emerging Track Record
NEA produced this overview of independent evaluations of existing voucher programs. (2002)

NEA President on Vouchers

The Best "Choice"
Voucher proponents typically proclaim that "public education has failed." NEA President Reg Weaver replies that the overwhelming majority of American parents don't believe that's true.

News Releases

NEA's Bob Chanin Argues Voucher Case
The Supreme Court Feb. 20 heard oral arguments in a landmark school voucher case, reviewing a lower court's decision that Cleveland's private school tuition plan is unconstitutional. (Feb. 20, 2002)

State Affiliates Speak Out

The Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) provides extensive background on vouchers in Milwaukee and elsewhere.

WEAC provides information about the successful, targeted class-size reduction effort known as the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE).