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Why Our Kids Don’t Learn

Included in the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a dollar-for-dollar tax credit, up to $1,700, for contributions to “Scholarship Granting Organizations” that parents can access and use toward paying for private school tuition and fees and other educational expenses.

The provision is constructed such that states must choose to opt in to the program, which begins January 2027.

As of this writing, per the IRS, 28 states have opted in. Of those 28, 25 are red states and three are blue—Colorado, New Hampshire and Virginia.

This partisan imbalance is no accident.

The nation’s two major teachers unions—the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association—are cash machines for the Democratic Party. And the last thing they want is parents having any say in where their child receives their K-12 education.

The unions have published an “Open Letter to our Democratic Governors” urging them to “say no to the Trump private voucher scheme.”

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Per the leaders of these two unions, the signatories of the letter, “Public........

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