Not exact matches
Cuomo, in the remaining days of the session, is pressing for one of the items in his education initiatives: a
tax credit for big
money donors to
send students to private schools and pay for extra curricular programs for
public schools.
Critics also conveniently forget about all the
money public schools receive for services they do not provide when parents, who pay property
taxes for
public education,
send their children to private schools.
The plan promoted by Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos widened a divide in the school - choice movement and brought swift condemnation from people who support more competition for
public schools in the form of charter schools but oppose
sending tax money to private institutions.
If a charter receives private donations and support from wealthy philanthropimps, their government
tax money should be reduced and
sent to the neighboring
public schools.