education secretary betsy devos has been a proponent of voucher programs that allow lower-income students to attend schools of their choice but 16 years after the program began in flori florida there are still major disagreements about whether it s helping students, boris sanchez reports. science, social studies. reporter: for 7-year-old lana, going to public school was miserable, she had trouble making friends, didn t get enough attention from teachers and even hated the food. her grand parents say that almost everyday ended in tears. i said why are you crying, mami? i don t like it here. reporter: so anna brought her second grader to kingdom academy where lana has flourished. it s better here.
reporter: but lana can only attend the school because of a controversial voucher program, one that s been at the center of a heated political battle in florida for 16 years. instead of paying taxes to the state, corporations get dollar-for-dollar tax credits by donating money to organizations like step up for students which gave many of the 98,000 scholarships to lower income students, enabling them to go to private schools statewide. i don t think low income children should have less opportunities than more affluent children. kids don t get to choose their parents. they don t get the choose the environment they grow up in. why do we have all these opportunities for more affluent families and don t have the same opportunities for lower income families. reporter: but opponents of the voucher program say it s leaving many students behind. we are at the point now where we don t have enough books for each kid to take home. reporter: french teacher c a
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and russia and putin s involvement in our election, anything trump does on russia going forward is going to be questions and suspect. say he does want to collaborate with the russians in syria or iraq or in some other theater. everyone is going to be asking, why is he doing that? what s behind it? there s no one who needs to get to the bottom of the russia/trump connection more than donald trump and his national security team. they will be haunted and hobbled by it. as long as we don t know what the truth is there. tom friedman, thanks for joining us on set. check out tom s latest column in the times today. coming up, it s complicated. the battle going on inside the republican party over president trump s health care prescription. florida congressman ron desantis is with us to talk about it. there he is, next. get to nissan now. and save on a lineup featuring rogue. with available intelligent safty shield technologies. that could stop for you. take on the unexpected, with six 20-
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