Anonymous wrote:Hogan hates MoCo, so don't expect anything to trickle here.

He's a big Catholic, right? There's likely a connection.

He cut state funding to the universities and to public schools---including MoCo. It's not good, people.

Why not improve the public schools in low income areas instead of selecting a small number of kids to go to private school? It's window dressing---it's the easy way out. Instead, we should demand that ALL public schools provide a high quality education.

+1. I don't understand why a select few children will receive scholarships to privates. Why shouldn't the money be spent to increase the overall benefit of the local public schools that these children are attending? Many will argue that it's the parental support at home that truly improves a child's education--so why not replicate the parent model at school? Give the school the money to provide nutritious meals, hire adults to assist with afterschool home work and provide enrichment opportunities, offer free after school child care. Why not provide the benefit for the entire community rather than just a select few?

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Taxes?

Okay....so as a homeowner in Montgomery County, now I'm paying for BOTH public schools AND contributing to a scholarship fund so that students can opt NOT to attend the public schools I'm paying for?

You don't get to choose where your tax money is spent. Not directly.

You already provide scholarship money for school, you live in a sanctuary city, remember? That means illegal immigrant children receive a scholarship education via your tax dollars and I am sure those little darlings will be the first to benefit with private school scholarships. See what you voted for all these years. LOL

All US public schools educate all children. None of them exclude children based on immigration status,.

Public schools aren't for free. Our taxes pay for them.

GOP'ers hate funding the common good. Anything they can do to harm public education is cannon.

Lastly, Montgomery county is not a city.

Hogan hates MoCo, so don't expect anything to trickle here.

He's a big Catholic, right? There's likely a connection.

He cut state funding to the universities and to public schools---including MoCo. It's not good, people.

Why not improve the public schools in low income areas instead of selecting a small number of kids to go to private school? It's window dressing---it's the easy way out. Instead, we should demand that ALL public schools provide a high quality education.

Since schools are based on where you able to afford to live, wealthier people get better schools, poorer people get poorer schools. If you can't afford to move, you might have the ability to try and get your kids into a magnet program, but at least in my area the magnet programs are highly desirable and over half the kids I know who have tried to get into them haven't won the lottery.

That leaves poor families pretty much out of luck. Wealthy families can at least afford private if their public options don't meet the needs of their children, and of course they have more flexibility to move. I think we need to extend the options so there are more options available to everyone. This is one way.

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Taxes?

Okay....so as a homeowner in Montgomery County, now I'm paying for BOTH public schools AND contributing to a scholarship fund so that students can opt NOT to attend the public schools I'm paying for?

Well, it's for lower income students who are not currently getting what they need from public school.

As a homeowner, you are getting the benefit of sending your own kids to public school for free.

Its for very low income. Its not about not getting what they need from public. If that were the case, they should give it to kids with documented SN to go to the specialized privates. I'd love to send my kid to one but we don't have $40-60,000 to do it a year.

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Taxes?

Okay....so as a homeowner in Montgomery County, now I'm paying for BOTH public schools AND contributing to a scholarship fund so that students can opt NOT to attend the public schools I'm paying for?

You don't get to choose where your tax money is spent. Not directly.

You already provide scholarship money for school, you live in a sanctuary city, remember? That means illegal immigrant children receive a scholarship education via your tax dollars and I am sure those little darlings will be the first to benefit with private school scholarships. See what you voted for all these years. LOL

Do you mean voting for Hogan? I thought Republicans don't normally like giving handouts. This seems like a decent handout from Hogan.

Plus, this would be for the whole state, not just MoCo. And, most of the kids getting the scholarship are white (not Latino, as you imply by your comment).

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Taxes?

Okay....so as a homeowner in Montgomery County, now I'm paying for BOTH public schools AND contributing to a scholarship fund so that students can opt NOT to attend the public schools I'm paying for?

You don't get to choose where your tax money is spent. Not directly.

You already provide scholarship money for school, you live in a sanctuary city, remember? That means illegal immigrant children receive a scholarship education via your tax dollars and I am sure those little darlings will be the first to benefit with private school scholarships. See what you voted for all these years. LOL

MoCo is not a sanctuary city/county. It turns over undocumented immigrants who are incarcerated as long as the Feds meet probable cause.

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Taxes?

Okay....so as a homeowner in Montgomery County, now I'm paying for BOTH public schools AND contributing to a scholarship fund so that students can opt NOT to attend the public schools I'm paying for?

You don't get to choose where your tax money is spent. Not directly.

You already provide scholarship money for school, you live in a sanctuary city, remember? That means illegal immigrant children receive a scholarship education via your tax dollars and I am sure those little darlings will be the first to benefit with private school scholarships. See what you voted for all these years. LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Taxes?

Okay....so as a homeowner in Montgomery County, now I'm paying for BOTH public schools AND contributing to a scholarship fund so that students can opt NOT to attend the public schools I'm paying for?

Well, it's for lower income students who are not currently getting what they need from public school.

As a homeowner, you are getting the benefit of sending your own kids to public school for free.

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Taxes?

Okay....so as a homeowner in Montgomery County, now I'm paying for BOTH public schools AND contributing to a scholarship fund so that students can opt NOT to attend the public schools I'm paying for?

You don't get to choose where your tax money is spent. Not directly.

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Anonymous wrote:Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Taxes?

Okay....so as a homeowner in Montgomery County, now I'm paying for BOTH public schools AND contributing to a scholarship fund so that students can opt NOT to attend the public schools I'm paying for?

Anonymous wrote:Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Taxes?

Where does the state get the money to fund these scholarships?

Hopefully this link works:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-wants-to-expand-state-funded-private-school-scholarships-but-is-the-time-right/2016/12/26/7855e35a-c622-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html?utm_term=.d7c8ae2060cb

Hogan is all about school choice and he wants to expand funding for kids to choose to attend private school. I voted for Hogan but have mixed feelings about this at this time.