Senate Bill 313 brings Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) to Louisiana, which allow families to access public dollars to pay for private school tuition.
Health care advocates are speaking out against proposed cuts to a California program that provides in-home care aides to low-income seniors and people with disabilities who are undocumented immigrants. Governor Gavin Newsom s May budget revision would cut about 2,600 people from the In-Home Support Services program, to save an estimated $94 million. Dania Perea Alonso, undocumented immigrant from Fresno who receives these services is hearing- and vision-impaired and said the program makes it possible for her sister to provide care. .
By Lane Wendell Fischer for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Mark Moran for Iowa News Service reporting for The Daily Yonder-Public News Service Collaboration State Republican leaders are cracking down on rural members of their own party who oppose universal school vouchers, which allow families to take a portion of their state’s education funding away from public schools to pay for their child’s private education. Rural state legislators have been more likely to oppose school voucher laws because they worry the programs will weaken local public schools without ensuring educational investments for rural students. Opposition to vouchers has been a rare point of agreement between rural Republicans and urban Democrats, who also tend to oppose vouchers. But recently, the state leaders in the Republican Party have resorted to more aggressive tactics to force voucher legislation through to the governor’s desk, said Jennifer Berkshire, author of t