Lexington Herald-Leader Op-Ed: Don’t be fooled. Tax credits for private school are about dismantling public education.
By LINDA BLACKFORD
I was in college before I found out there were people in the world who did not think Franklin D. Roosevelt was a great president.
Sheltered, maybe. But yes, it was a revelation that some opposed the New Deal as a way to pull the United States out of the Great Depression. It’s a pretty basic and consistent political divide in the this country: Is government a good thing that builds roads, protects us, educates us and provides basic social safety nets, or is it a malevolent entity, most of which should be dismantled and handed over to the private sector?
That’s what brings us around to scholarship tax credits, a modification of school vouchers that’s made its way through various conservative byways to land in Kentucky with the help of Sen. Ralph Alvarado, R-Winchester. Alvarado and other advocates say Senate Bill 110 will help low-income students who are being failed by the public schools.