“A late-session attempt by some lawmakers to expand a controversial private school tuition program has public school educators fearing a repeat of last spring, when lawmakers folded contentious K-12 policy changes into an appropriations bill in the eleventh hour.”

We learned a lot at the end of the 2014 legislative session. We saw bills we opposed, which had not passed out of committee, put into the final appropriations bill to provide the funding to comply with the Gannon decision. We are watching this legislature very carefully as we are deeply concerned that additional anti-public school provisions could be used to appease conservative legislators who have to vote for tax increases and that such provisions may suddenly appear in the late-night hours.

Read more about the latest attempt to expand the corporate tax credit scholarship here: http://cjonline.com/news/2015-06-06/educators-cry-foul-over-private-school-provision-tax-negotiations