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Nirvi Shah for the Hechinger Report

US school voucher programs have caught on – but are they funneling public dollars in private schools?

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Some advocates fear a growing number of private school subsidies will strip public schools of resources.
Some advocates fear a growing number of private school subsidies will strip public schools of resources. Photograph: Francois Picard/AFP/Getty Images

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Abbey Clegg watched the Manchester school board meetings online in the summer of 2020, slowly coming to terms with what was happening: New Hampshire schools were not going to reopen in the fall as the pandemic raged on.

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