In the partisan politics of education funding, the school choice movement has pressed states for decades to send taxpayer money to private and religious schools and long had to concentrate its efforts on states where a Republican governor was an ally. That suddenly changed over the summer.
In the partisan politics of education funding, the school choice movement has pressed states for decades to send taxpayer money to private and religious schools and long had to concentrate its efforts on states where a Republican governor was an ally.Related video above: Shapiro discusses vouchers earlier this year with WGAL reporter Tom Lehman.That suddenly changed over the summer.Pennsylvania Gov.
The voucher debate in Pennsylvania came at a particularly charged time: A court had ruled only months earlier that the state's system of school funding had for decades unconstitutionally discriminated against the poorest districts.That had motivated public school advocates and Democrats to demand billions more for the poorest public schools, a quest that Shapiro has said he supports.Shapiro's familiarity with private schools, meanwhile, is born of experience.
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