{"id":2838,"date":"2025-05-21T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2025-05-16T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:17:06","slug":"rural-voters-are-pushing-back-against-school-voucher-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/rural-voters-are-pushing-back-against-school-voucher-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Voters are Pushing Back Against School Voucher Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giving tax-paid vouchers to children so they can attend private schools, most of them conservative Christian schools, is on the rise across America. But the idea is hurting public education, so voters are beginning to push back.\u00a0 Leading the way are rural voters in red states, which could become a serious problem for the vouchers-loving Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Red States, Rural Voters Are Leading the Resistance to School Vouchers<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/barnraisingmedia.com\/why-red-state-rural-voters-are-leading-the-resistance-to-school-vouchers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/barnraisingmedia.com\/why-red-state-rural-voters-are-leading-the-resistance-to-school-vouchers\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780231218573\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving tax-paid vouchers to children so they can attend private schools, most of them conservative Christian schools, is on the rise across America. But the idea is hurting public education, so voters are beginning to push back.\u00a0 Leading the way are rural voters in red states, which could become a serious problem for the vouchers-loving&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/rural-voters-are-pushing-back-against-school-voucher-programs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Rural Voters are Pushing Back Against School Voucher Programs&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,65,41,40,56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-education","category-news","category-politics","category-religion","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}