Despite Trump's win, school vouchers were again rejected by majorities of voters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : They continue to advocate for vouchers, though, for multiple reasons: a sense that public schools are places where children develop liberal values, an ideological belief that the free market and private institutions can do things better and more efficiently than public ones, and a long-term goal of more religious education in this country.
47% : (A University of Houston poll taken this summer found that two-thirds of Texans supported voucher legislation, but that an equal number also believe that vouchers funnel money away from "already struggling public schools.")In the half dozen competitive Texas legislative races targeted in this election by Abbott and the pro-voucher American Federation for Children, backed by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Republican candidates did not make vouchers a central plank of their platforms.
40% : In Nebraska, nearly all 93 counties voted to repeal an existing voucher program; even its reddest county, where 95% of voters supported Trump, said no to vouchers.
39% : In Kentucky, a ballot initiative that would have allowed public money to go toward private schooling was defeated roughly 65% to 35% -- the same margin as in Arizona in 2018 and the inverse of the margin by which Trump won Kentucky.
18% : But the concrete results of ballot initiatives around the nation show that it is in fact Trump, DeVos and other voucher proponents who are out of step with the American people on this particular issue.

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