We first shared this video from a tax credit scholarship expansion hearing almost exactly a year ago. In it, a private school representative acknowledged that they can and sometimes do transition kids out because they aren’t performing academically. We continue to believe that private schools should not receive public tax...
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School Choice Voucher Programs Lets Schools Choose…Not Parents
Once private schools start receiving public subsidies via tax-credit scholarships, education savings accounts, or other neo-vouchers, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools. We shared a video clip last week of a gentleman explaining that private schools he works with “transition” students to other schools. Today...
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No comments Call to Action! – Voucher Alert!
If you have not contacted your state Representative, please do so! HB 2068 (tax credit scholarship expansion) and HB 2119 (Education Savings Account) are both voucher bills that could be on the House floor any day now. These bills and others being introduced in committees represent the strongest attack on...
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No comments February Voucher-palooza
It was voucher-palooza in the Kansas legislature today. The Senate passed the tax credit scholarship, and the House K-12 Education Budget Committee passed the massive Education Savings Account bill. They improved it slightly by removing homeschools from participation and by requiring students to be current public school students rather than...
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