“Sheryl Spalding, president of the Johnson County-based Mainstream Coalition and a former Kansas legislator and member of the Blue Valley school board, doesn’t agree. She points to Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution: ‘No religious sect or sects shall control any part of the public educational funds.’
“’And yet they are giving directly to private schools,”’she said. ‘That would seem to fly in the face of what the Kansas Constitution thinks, and has since its inception, is a good idea.’
“Spalding argues tax credits are a mechanism that diverts money from state revenue to something the state wants to promote, and in this case, the state is promoting private and religious schools.”
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