{"id":8642,"date":"2008-07-03T05:26:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8642"},"modified":"2008-07-03T05:26:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T09:26:37","slug":"hmmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8642","title":{"rendered":"HMMM"},"content":{"rendered":"

NC’s version of a voucher program<\/a> is not going to pass this year:<\/p>\n

The state House and Senate bills, which have support from Democrats and Republicans, would allow parents to claim a tax credit of as much as $6,000 a year for each special-needs child. They could use it to pay tuition at private schools. Parents of home-schooled children could use it also to pay for services.<\/p>\n

To be initially eligible, the child would have to have been in a public school the year before, would have to be formally designated as being a special-needs student and would have to have received daily special services outside the regular classroom.<\/p>\n

Education officials estimate that about 58,000 of the state’s 194,182 special-needs students would be eligible to leave the public schools and get this tax credit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t written about this one before because I’ve really been of two minds. I’m reflexively against tax credits\/deductions for homeschooling in which the government gets to decide what is a legitimate expense. OTOH, folks with special needs kids sometimes spend tons of money seeking out the best education for their kids, and NC doesn’t do a particularly good job helping. But with the full array of the education establishment aligned against it, the proposal was doomed from the start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NC’s version of a voucher program is not going to pass this year: The state House and Senate bills, which have support from Democrats and Republicans, would allow parents to claim a tax credit of as much as $6,000 a year for each special-needs child. They could use it to pay tuition at private schools. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}