I don’t know whether the legislative Democratic leadership would’ve allowed a vote, but it is puzzling to me the people behind the extension of the state’s Invest in Kids Act program didn’t at least try to run a bill that would’ve wound the program down over a period of years.
Continuing to allow income tax credits for donations to private school scholarship funds for kids who were already enrolled in the program would’ve protected those individual children from being kicked out of the schools over an inability to pay. Legislation like that would’ve given both sides a veto session “win” and kept the program on life support so a future General Assembly might decide to restart it down the road.
