Families and students in Maryland can breathe a sigh of relief after lawmakers agreed to provide $9 million in funding for the state’s school choice scholarship program for low-income families. The program was originally on the new governor’s chopping block.
Every year, taxpayers must send billions of dollars to Washington in order to fund federal education programs through the U.S. Department of Education and other agencies which then redistribute that money back to individual states through a complex system of formula and competitive grant programs.
"I told my mom not too long ago I would like to be president oneday when I grow up," writes Fransoir, a 7th grader and recipient ofa scholarship to attend a private school in the District ofColumbia. But if Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill have their way,his academic future could become another casualty in the war ofeducational politics.