Vouchers on the Ballot

California, 2000
Proposition 38 would have provided state- financed vouchers of at least $4,000 per child to offset tuition at private schools, including religious schools.

Yes: 29% No: 71%

Michigan, 2000
Proposal 1 would have offered vouchers of approximately $3,300 each to parents of students in school districts in which fewer than two-thirds of high school students graduate within four years. Families could have used the vouchers at private schools, including religious schools.

Yes: 31% No: 69%

Washington, 1996
Initiative 173 would have provided students with vouchers to use at any eligible public or private school. The amounts would have been required to equal 55 percent of per-pupil spending in the previous school year, or about $3,400.

Yes: 36% No: 64%

California, 1993
Proposition 174 would have provided parents with vouchers worth at least half the amount spent on each public school student in the state, or about $2,500, to help pay for tuition at any “scholarship-redeeming school,” including secular and religious private schools.

Yes: 30% No: 70%

Colorado, 1992
Amendment 7 would have given parents vouchers valued at 50 percent of the average per-pupil expenditure in their children’s local school districts, or about $2,500, for use in public or private schools, including religious schools.

Yes: 33% No: 67%

Michigan, 1978
Proposal H would have established a school voucher system that also would have removed a 1970, voter-approved ban on providing public aid to private schools.

Yes: 26% No: 74%

Maryland, 1972
Question 18, was a referendum on a plan adopted by the state legislature in 1971 to create a state scholarship program for children attending approved non-public schools.

Yes: 45% No: 55%