Mini-Post: Public Funds... Private White Schools

When public funds are used to discriminate and avoid segregation that is wrong!

Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools

In the first month of direct state aid for Missouri’s K-12 scholarship program, 98% of funds went to religious institutions

Missouri Indenpendent

By: Annelise Hanshaw

October 13, 2025

State funding of private-school vouchers is primarily being used for students attending religious institutions, with nearly 98% of funding going toward Catholic, Christian, Jewish and Islamic schools.

This year, state lawmakers passed a budget that included a request from Gov. Mike Kehoe to supply the state-run K-12 scholarship program, MOScholars, with $50 million of general revenue. Previously, the impact to the state’s bottom line was indirect, with 100% tax-deductible donations fueling the program.

Donations are still part of MOScholars’ funding, but the state appropriation has more than doubled the number of scholarships available.

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This number did not surprise Democratic lawmakers, who for years have warned that state revenue was going to be siphoned into religious schools.

“We are simply subsidizing, with tax dollars, parents who would already choose to send their kids to a private school,” state Sen. Maggie Nurrenbern, a Kansas City Democrat, told The Independent. “And now we are using public dollars to pay for schools that are not transparent whatsoever in choosing who to educate and who not.”

This is so wrong! Tax dollars going for discrimination! This is a way around the Jim Crow laws... if you don't think that this is Republican sponsor racism? Look at the facts! They voucher system part of a new racial caste system, even if cloaked in “choice.” Data shows the shows that about 75% of recipients are white!