Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship a “Travesty” and “Part of the Agenda” to Weaken Public Schools | Scathing Purple Musings

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Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship a “Travesty” and “Part of the Agenda” to Weaken Public Schools

by Bob Sikes

So says Seminole schools Superintendent Bill Vogel:

Florida’s tax-credit scholarship program for low-income students is “a travesty” and “part of the agenda” to weaken public schools, Seminole County education leaders say.

Their main complaint: There’s little known about what the nearly 38,000 students in the program are learning in exchange for the $175 million spent this year to send them to private — most often religious — schools

Such public criticism of the scholarship program, which is very popular among conservative