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House Republicans’ tax bill includes school choice scholarships
Catholic Vote ^ | May 12, 2025 | staff

Posted on 05/13/2025 9:28:35 AM PDT by Morgana

CV NEWS FEED // The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) is included in House Republicans’ omnibus tax bill, US Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-LA, announced May 12.

Cassidy, a chief sponsor of the ECCA, said in a post on X that the inclusion of the act in what President Donald Trump has called the “one big, beautiful bill” is a victory for parents and children.

Cassidy and US Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, led the introduction of the ECCA, which offers a charitable donation incentive for people and businesses who help fund scholarship awards to offset expenses for qualified students’ public and private primary and secondary education, according to a press release from Cassidy’s office.

“For years I’ve advocated for school choice with my Educational Choice for Children Act. I am pleased to see it included in the big, beautiful bill,” Cassidy said in the release. “Expanding President Trump’s tax cuts is about preserving the American Dream. Giving parents the ability to choose the best education for their child makes the dream possible.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: arth; education; taxes; trump

1 posted on 05/13/2025 9:28:35 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Funding school choice isn’t the answer, as it just spreads government dictates to more schools.

The answer is for each and every community to demand that their public schools provide traditional classroom options. Get them out of all the tech-based instruction and access to phones. Instead spend more time daily on math and reading. Math and reading. Math and reading. And, of course, teach both by the traditionally successful methods, rather than the common core abominations.


2 posted on 05/13/2025 9:32:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Yea, right.....like that’s going to work! They don’t teach the basics because the PS teachers don’t KNOW the basics. Most of the PS teachers I’ve met in the last few years are dumber than a box of rocks. And in the Citie’s PS systems they’re almost all DEI hires.


3 posted on 05/13/2025 9:42:09 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: Rich21IE

That’s fair. But suburban and rural schools could do it with the right curriculum.


4 posted on 05/13/2025 9:53:14 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Morgana

Republicans need to support refundable tax credits in the amount needed to pay for high quality private school tuition, fees, and supplies.


5 posted on 05/13/2025 10:54:19 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Each and every community first has to get totally off the Federal teat i.e. get rid of ALL federal government money to the schools. All the directives from the voters or the parents to school boards are as nothing so long as the district is taking any amount of Federal money.


6 posted on 05/13/2025 4:41:39 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (covfefe xix)
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To: 9YearLurker

Rural schools.....maybe. I live rural and our PS is head an shoulders better than the nearest “urban/suburban” ISD. From my grandkids experience, the “suburban” schools are a total loss having been taken over by gangs. They’ve become mini versions of the prison systems.


7 posted on 05/19/2025 9:06:27 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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