Tag: school choice and low-income families
Local NAACP president defends Sen. Rubio’s scholarship bill
Editor’s note: The Rev. Manuel Sykes is pastor of Bethel Community Baptist Church and president of the St. Petersburg NAACP, an active chapter on Florida’s west coast. In this commentary, he responds to a recent Tampa Bay Times column that criticized a federal tax credit scholarship bill offered by U.S. Sen. Marco... READ MOREA closer look at Marco Rubio’s proposal for federal tax credit scholarships
Eleven states currently offer tax credits to specified taxpayers who...
READ MOREIncreasing school choice demand will increase pressure for change
I am grateful to Rebecca Sibilia and Sean Gill for...
READ MOREMarco Rubio: Time to expand private school options for low-income families
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced a bill...
READ MOREAdmissions rules for voucher schools
This is the fourth in a series of brief observations...
READ MOREThe silence of the shepherd
Many of our more public minds oppose aid to families...
READ MOREJoel Klein and Condi Rice say parental choice is ‘No. 1’
At Jeb Bush’s National Summit on Education Reform in Washington,...
READ MORERegulating school vouchers
The gurus of school choice have often shuddered at the...
READ MOREExpanded school choice is down but not out in North Carolina
An attempt to bring a tax credit scholarship to low-income...
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