Running Up the Score: Make That Ten

Thou shalt not dismiss the viability of school choice!

(Guest post by Greg Forster)

Earlier this week I celebrated the Oklahoma Eight Ball, the first school choice program passed after the Indiana Triple Play gave me the seven enactments (new or expanded programs) needed to win my bet with Jay Mathews.

Or so I thought! Somehow I missed the Florida Twofer. Florida expanded funds available for its tax-credit scholarship program and made a larger population of students eligible for the McKay voucher program for special needs students(thus expanding the total size of the program because McKay has no cap on total participation).

That puts my score at ten out of seven.

At least six states are still in play according to my sources: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Jersey, and South Carolina.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 20th, 2011 at 7:44 am and is filed under politics, tax-credit scholarships, vouchers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to Running Up the Score: Make That Ten

Paul DiPerna says:

May 20, 2011 at 1:25 pm

Greg.. Minnesota is still in play too, though odds are long for the program to make it through the grind… Gov. Dayton will likely veto, and then who knows what may happen in conference.

Latest news here:
http://www.austindailyherald.com/2011/05/19/gop-backed-education-bill-headed-to-gov/

Session is set to conclude on Monday 5/23.

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matthewladner says:

May 20, 2011 at 2:51 pm

Did you count Georgia? Gov. signed a tax credit expansion recently.

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- Greg Forster says:
  
  May 20, 2011 at 3:19 pm
  
  Oops! Record corrected here.
  
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