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Geaux Teacher!: Which came first - the Vouchers or the Scams?

Geaux Teacher!: Which came first - the Vouchers or the Scams?:


Which came first - the Vouchers or the Scams?

REPOSTED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

May 21, 2012

Public Money Finds Back Door to Private Schools
By STEPHANIE SAUL

When the Georgia legislature passed a private school scholarship program in 2008, lawmakers promoted it as a way to give poor children the same education choices as the wealthy.

The program would be supported by donations to nonprofit scholarship groups, and Georgians who contributed would receive dollar-for-dollar tax credits, up to $2,500 a couple. The intent was that money otherwise due to the Georgia treasury — about $50 million a year — would be used instead to help needy students escape struggling public schools.

That was the idea, at least. But parents meeting at Gwinnett Christian Academy got a completely different story