With little transparency or oversight, billions of dollars flow to private, religious schools

About this series: A growing number of states are making school choices funding available to parents, often without regard to their financial means. Over the past two months, CNHI reporters have explored those options, which include education scholarship accounts, voucher programs and tax credits. This series of stories examines how these programs work, how effective they are in improving education and the impact they are having on traditional public education. This special report also looks at how school funding has become a hot-button political issue in the 2024 presidential election.