Education tax credits work — that’s why Dems voted to destroy them

Broad and Liberty ^ | 06/30/2026 | Guy Ciarrocchi:

[Kid Shelleen]

This school year about 108,000 Pennsylvania students from poor and working-class families received K-12 tuition assistance scholarships to find a non-public school that works — funded entirely by charitable contributions from individuals, small businesses and corporations. About 80,000 more students wanted this tuition assistance, but the funding ran out.

Seeing this truly successful, overwhelmingly popular program deserving even more support, Pennsylvania House Democrats responded by voting to cripple, then slowly kill this life-changing student program. (Even worse: they tried to lie about it.)

They voted unanimously to destroy this program. Because it works.

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[Kid Shelleen]

Republicans should hang this around "moderate" Josh Shapiro's neck. Instead of removing the program the cowards handcuffed it with red tape.
* They imposed a tax on the money raised
* They dramatically reduced the eligibility income cap.
* Required the Auditor General to audit every non-profit scholarship organization and every participating school. All of a sudden the Dems love auditors.

[Kid Shelleen]

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[Brian Griffin]

Philadelphia Islamic Academy....

Public schools were created and funded in the 1840s with the main purpose of preventing immigrants from getting educations supplied by religious organizations.

[Alberta's Child]

I think you have it backwards. Parochial schools were established in the late 19th century to give Catholic children an alternative to government-run (Protestant) public schools.

[Racketeer]

Democrats are scared to death of an educated public.

[Resolute Conservative]

It was around 1850’s that the libs/socialist also started recognizing the value of having 5 to 16/18 children for a good block the day to “teach them”.

[lightman]

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[lightman]

The EITC is a wonderful program...but...it has spawned an industry of 3rd party administrators whose fees skim 10 - 20% of the donor money.

They need to be reined in.