Schools Matter: New Jersey Alert: Stop School Voucher Bill

Schools Matter: New Jersey Alert: Stop School Voucher Bill

New Jersey Alert: Stop School Voucher Bill

by Jim Horn

Action Alert

This Thursday, the Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee is voting on a voucher bill that would divert more than $1 billion tax dollars to fund private and religious education. Without strong public opposition, this bill is likely to become law by the end of February.

The bill's supporters are trying to sneak it through before the public becomes aware of the danger and before the state's budget is introduced in three weeks, when we will be told once again that there is not enough money to fund the public schools. They hope that we don't notice that this bill would divert $1 billion tax dollars from the state's budget to create a new program to fund private and religious education while decimating struggling public school districts.

Only a mobilized public can prevent New Jersey from becoming the first state in the country to adopt such a