North Dakota Lawmakers Kill Voucher Bill
North Dakota joins Utah, Missouri in rejecting vouchers this year
Legislators in North Dakota do not (yet) have the appetite to spend state money on coupons for families to use at private schools.
The North Dakota Monitor reports:
The North Dakota House overwhelmingly rejected an Education Savings Account bill Thursday night, a day after the governor vetoed a similar bill.
House members voted 78-14 against Senate Bill 2400, which sought to provide private school vouchers plus Education Savings Accounts for public school and homeschooled students.
But the $110 million price tag to the Senate bill is likely why many opposed it, said House Majority Leader Mike Lefor, R-Dickinson.
Lefor, who supported the bill, said he doesn’t see a path for an Education Savings Account proposal to come back this session.
While Tennessee and Texas both passed expensive universal school voucher schemes during legislative sessions this year, the money transfer schemes ran into roadblocks in Utah and Missouri.
Isn’t all state education funding a “money transfer scheme”?
I wish I could figure out how to end the voucher program in AZ! I personally know parents who joke about the state paying for their elite private Catholic school for their kids now. I don’t mind helping a low income family in a not so great school district get a better education, but that is not who is using it!