Proponents of Invest in Kids focused on political theater, not compromise
I don’t know whether or not the legislative Democratic
leadership would’ve allowed a vote, but it is puzzling to me that the people
behind the extension of the state’s Invest in Kids Act program didn’t at least
try to run a bill that would’ve wound the program down over a period of years. Continuing to allow income-tax credits for donations to
private school scholarship funds for kids who were already enrolled in the
program would’ve protected those individual children from being kicked out of
the schools over an inability to pay…