The NCPE Toolkit For State Legislators and Advocates

This toolkit, originally published in 2023, is designed as a resource to help legislators and pro-public school advocates oppose attempts to create or expand existing private school voucher programs. Multiple addendums provide additional information

This toolkit focuses on today’s coordinated campaigns against public education, and elevates accountability and discrimination as major problems in voucher programs.

Download the toolkit here.

NEW: Download the 2026 addendum here.

Download the October 2023 toolkit addendum here.

Request bound copies of the toolkit here.

Ask us questions about the toolkit or for more information here.

Download the 2021 version of NCPE’s toolkit, focused on the legal landscape after the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Espinoza v. Montana, here.

New!

February 2026 addendum

In light of the rapidly changing voucher landscape, we have added a new addendum to the toolkit containing the latest updates for February 2026. Since we published the February 2023 NCPE Toolkit, the private school voucher landscape has expanded dramatically. In the last three years, 12 states adopted new programs and some additional states removed eligibility limitations. Today, 32 states and D.C. have voucher programs. Eighteen of these states have universal voucher programs that allow virtually every student in the state—regardless of family income, whether they ever attended public school, or any other factor—to get a taxpayer-funded voucher to pay for tuition at private school. The consequences of this growth are clear.

This addendum provides information about the new federal tax credit voucher program, as well as an overview of growing legal challenges to voucher programs.

Download the February toolkit addendum here.