Florida’s Voucher Programs are Not a Model We Want in Kansas Our concerns about unregulated tax credit scholarship and education savings account programs and their growth are not hypothetical. See how it’s going in Florida in this video produced by the Orlando Sentinel. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/94895499-132.html Originally posted to Facebook 2/8/2021....
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Another Warning About Tax Credit Scholarships
Another warning about tax-credit scholarships and other neo-vouchers, this one from Florida. Stories like this are part of why we believe bills attempting to establish or expand these programs need to have standards and accountability provisions. “I recently received a call from a community partner in the south end of...
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Some people say Kansas should be more like Florida when it comes to education policy. We disagree. Here’s another example of why. “A new Pine Hills private school led by the 23-year-old daughter of a woman who was banned from Florida’s school voucher programs may be allowed to accept those...
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No comments USA Today Article: “Trump’s ‘education freedom’ plan is an attack on public schools. That’s un-American”
Public schools are not “government schools,” state and federally-subsidized school choice and tax credit scholarships are not solutions to the challenges our students face, and Florida is no model for Kansas education. “Education freedom means something much narrower: exiting public school with the assistance of state and federal dollars. The...
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