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THEY SAID INDIANA’S VOUCHER PROGRAM WAS FOR RICH WHITE FAMILIES.
Then Indiana published the data. 📊
And the voucher population looks remarkably similar to Indiana’s public-school population:
White: 64.4% vouchers | 61.4% public schools
Hispanic: 17.5% | 15.4%
Black: 8.7% | 13.9%
Asian: 4.1% | 3.3%
Multiracial: 5.1% | 5.7%
White, Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students are all within about three percentage points of their public-school shares.
🌎 Hispanic and Asian families are actually represented at slightly higher rates in the voucher program.
Black students remain underrepresented. That belongs in the conversation, too.
But the broader picture is clear:
🏫 Bottom Line: The students using Indiana vouchers largely resemble the students attending Indiana public schools.
Now let’s talk about income. 💰
First, household size matters. 👨👩👧👦
Nearly 72% of the applications verified using household income were for families of four to six people.
A family of six earning $150,000 may sound wealthy in a political talking point.
🛒 It feels a little different at the grocery store.
Among the 66,412 voucher students placed into an income bracket:
🔹 45% came from households earning $100,000 or less
🔹 73% came from households earning $150,000 or less
🔹 89% came from households earning under $200,000
🔹 About 11% came from households earning $200,000 or more
Are some higher-income families participating?
✅ Yes.
But the claim that this is nothing more than a giveaway to rich white families?
❌ The data do not support it.
Here is the part that gets missed:
Wealthy families already have school choice.
They can move.
They can pay tuition.
They can hire help.
The real question is whether ordinary families should have choices, too.
🤝 Vouchers help working families, middle-class families, large families, and minority families access options that wealthier parents already have.
You can support the program.
You can oppose the program.
But you should not erase tens of thousands of ordinary Indiana families to make your argument work. That is wrong.
Because the data show that this program does not serve only one race, one income bracket, or one kind of family.
❤️ It helps Hoosiers.
That should matter more than the political label someone wants to put on them.
📲 If you followed us for the Noblesville referendum, stick around.
That may be where this page started—but we’re building something much bigger than one referendum or one school district.
🔎 Follow https://www.facebook.com/YourMoneyIndiana for public records, school spending, taxes, and government accountability from across Indiana.
📊 Sources: Indiana Department of Education, 2025–26 Choice Scholarship Program Annual Report and 2025–26 statewide enrollment data
To bad the article wasn’t about Vouchers. You could have made some good points.
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Mary M…Rural communities do not have a choice. In my county there are no private schools located within the county, but yet SEA 1 is projected to gut our two local school corps. Another factor that you did not address is the unaccountability of private schools. They handpick the students they want, and they do not answer to the taxpayers for the money they receive. Those points are enough for me to discount any colorful powerpoint chart that you produce. We have to send a message to the legislators in this upcoming election and get back to common sense school funding.
James is right. There are legislators that approved expanded school choice even though their own constituents don’t have a choice due to geography. Based upon those votes, they have decided it’s party over people even their own neighbors.
I would also argue that Mary’s numbers are skewed because expanded school choice just recently became effective. The number of higher income families will increase going forward.
Fix the roads and fund schools…seems like a campaign a lot of Hoosiers could get behind. Would drive a lot of other economic development if you could fix those two things…
Cry me a river…
Defund the schools. Defund the tax police. These seem like pretty solid Republican Policy. Keep voting that way and it’s what you’ll get. Unless you don’t care that a generation of Hoosiers grow up only qualified for minimum wage jobs.
You get what you pay for.