Nevada's 'Super Voucher' Failed to Save Poor Students
The Silver State’s school-choice program provided a useful template for what a school landscape could look like under Education Secretary-nominee Betsy DeVos.
In a low-key interview in 2015, the Education Secretary-nominee and billionaire school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos laid out the game plan for the movement going forward.
It was a familiar playbook—charter schools, online schools, and blended learning—to which DeVos added something of her own: DeVos supports all of those things, she said, plus “any combination, or any kind of choice that hasn’t yet been thought of.” While DeVos has since said that she wouldn’t push for a federal voucher mandate, the case of Nevada’s universal voucher could provide a blueprint for states to do it anyway.
When it was passed in 2015, the
