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Voting in favor of the Senate bill Thursday night (23 votes): Abrams, Apple, Bruce, Denning, Donovan, Fitzgerald, Holmes, King, Knox, LaTurner, Love, Lynn, Masterson, Melcher, O’Donnell, Olson, Peterson, Pilcher-Cook, Powell, Pyle, Smith, Wagle, and Wolf....

Late Thursday night, the Senate passed its education funding bill with many troubling provisions. It includes a property tax credit of up to $2500 for families homeschooling their children or sending them to private schools, the ALEC corporate tax credit scholarship, elimination of teacher due process and cuts to transportation, at-risk and virtual education funding, among other things. It includes the ability to raise LOBs but results in a net loss of school district general funds of $24.9 million. We oppose further diversion of general funds for education tax credits. We can support those after we fully fund our...