Legislators Fast-Tracking Tax Credit Scholarship (Voucher) Program

Our first Action Alert of the 2021 legislative session.

The Senate Education Committee and House K-12 Education Budget Committee have passed identical bills SB 61 and HB 2068, the tax credit expansion bill out of their committees. This bill is being fast-tracked.

Please contact your House and Senate representatives and urge them to vote NO. This bill would move away from the premise the passage of the program was originally based on and expand eligibility to students on free AND reduced-price lunch rather than just free lunch (free lunch is the proxy in Kansas education funding for at-risk) and would eliminate the requirement students be attending one of the 100 lowest-performing elementary schools. Donors to the tax credit scholarship program get a 70% tax credit (not deduction).

Tell your legislators you oppose this expansion of a neo-voucher program that gives public tax dollars to private schools without holding them to the same standards as public schools and without requiring any evidence that these programs are leading to increased academic outcomes for the students using these “scholarships.”

Modified from Facebook post dated 2/2/2021.