NJ Assembly Committee to Consider Voucher Bill on Thursday

January 31, 2011
By Nate Hennagin

On February 3, the New Jersey Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee will hold a hearing to consider A2810, a backdoor voucher program. In an 8-5 vote last week, the Senate version of this bill, S1872, passed the Budget and Appropriations Committee to go to the Senate floor.

Both bills would create a tuition tax credit program that provides vouchers to New Jersey schoolchildren to attend private school. Proponents of these bills claim that this measure would be "budget-neutral" or even help the state budget. Under this backdoor voucher program, however, the state would grant a 100% tax credit to corporations that donate money for vouchers. And the latest version of S1872 would have the state forgo over $1 billion over five years, which doesn't even account for the cost to administer the program. In these difficult economic times, this is fiscally irresponsible.

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These funds would also be sent to private and parochial schools that integrate religion throughout their curriculum. One of the most revered principles of American religious liberty is that the government should not compel any citizen to provide funds to support a religion with which he or she disagrees, or even one with which he or she does agree. By using funds that would otherwise be going to all-inclusive public schools to support private religious schools that promote a particular ideology, this principle would be severely undermined.

http://www.au.org/what-we-do/legislative/legislative-blog/archives/2011/01/nj-assembly-committee-to-consider-voucher-bill-on-thursday.html

and wants to do the same thing.

:thumbsdown:

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."

(attribution disputed, but most likely originated with John Philpot Curran in 1790)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonard_H._Courtney

but religious indoctriation????????

spend
spend
spend

it's the underpinning for patriarchy --




"MILITARISM DEPENDS ON MEN CHOOSING TO BOND WITH ONE ANOTHER
OVER THE BOND WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN " –

while they have the momentum the White House -- Obama/Duncan -- are providing!!