Posted on 03/09/2024 8:09:10 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Republican Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday signed the CHOOSE Act into law, making Alabama the latest state to make universal school choice law.
"Alabama is only the 14th state in the nation to provide families with an education savings account option," Ivey said after signing the legislation.
The education savings account is a school choice model that enables parents to use public funds to cover a variety of education expenses, including private school tuition, instructional materials, and homeschooling costs.
School choice, or providing all families with alternatives to the public schools they’re zoned for, can be expanded through multiple avenues at the state level, including school voucher programs, tax-credit scholarship programs, individual tuition tax credit programs and deductions, and education savings accounts (ESAs).......
Ten states have passed universal school choice legislation so far, with Arizona leading the charge in July 2022. These measures were made possible because of the GOP trifecta in those states (holding the governor's mansion, the state house and state senate) --a trend across all of the red states that passed school choice legislation.
North Carolina, however, was the first to do so without a GOP trifecta.
Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Utah, and North Carolina joined Arizona in signing universal school choice legislation and also implemented ESA models like Alabama. West Virginia has an ESA model, as well.
Oklahoma passed a universal tax credit program and Ohio implemented a universal school voucher program........
"This win is especially notable because the Alabama Education Association (state-level branch of the National Education Association) gives money to a bunch of Republican lawmakers," DeAngelis said. "Republicans there are apparently now more fearful of a new special interest group, parents, than the teachers union.
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Several Texas rinos got that memo.
BTW, in this case parents mean interested actual voters.
This is the best way to fight back against the insanity of the left.
Parents a *special interest group*? I hope that was said tongue in cheek.
But these days, in the days of parents being labeled domestic terrorists, it's hard to know for sure.
With all the negative news out there, it’s nice to hear a positive trend.
I think these are all red states. Blue states want children indoctrinated in gov’t schools run by teachers unions.
Excellent. Like Constitutional Carry, we need to get this passed in as many states as possible. Breaking the back of the Teacher’s union is vital for stopping the indoctrination of kids into whatever the Leftist fads of the day are be it actual Marxism or gender insanity.
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