It seems like every year in Utah, we have a legislative bill designed to implement some form of tuition voucher or tax credit or "scholarship" for k-12 private school tuition. This year was no exception.
The 45-day legislative session is now over, and thankfully, this year's conjuration of a "tuition tax credit/voucher/scholarship for private school tuition" bill has been defeated yet again. Notice how there is no maximum income level after which vouchers would no longer be offered, just a scaled level for the amount of the vouchers where even those with the highest incomes would still be eligible for a $500 "scholarship".
It seems that this issue will never go away, and there are many well-funded groups pushing to get a voucher program implemented under the guise of "choice" in education. Here's a link to a recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune about one such group's efforts to defeat legislators who oppose vouchers.
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