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...
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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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HB 2068 and SB 61, the identical House and Senate versions of the tax credit scholarship expansion have passed out of the House K-12 Education Budget and Senate Education Committees. We oppose these bills because they move further from the original premise of the tax credit scholarship scheme by expanding...
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The COVID pandemic is unprecedented and temporary, but bills being pushed by anti-public education legislators would do long-term harm to our public schools and the children they serve. Our friends at KASB posted some good information about voucher programs and their reasons for opposing HB 2068. Make sure your legislators...
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