Drew Perkins talks with Senior Policy Analyst at The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, Anna Baumann, and Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Leadership, & Research at Western Kentucky University and member of the Kentucky Board of Education, Gary Houchens, about the impact of proposed legislation to allow scholarship tax credits for non-public school students.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Kentucky Center for Economic Policy web site – Facebook
• @KyPolicy
• EdChoice KY
• @gary_houchens
• Gary’s blog on Scholarship Tax Credits
• Anna’s blog School Voucher Tax Break Proposals Further Threaten Funding for Public Education
• Critique of the methodology behind EdChoice findings that public schools save money with scholarship tax credits
• Where Does Voucher Funding Go? How Large-Scale Subsidy Programs Affect Private-School Revenue, Enrollment, and Prices
• Private School Voucher Credits Offer a Windfall to Wealthy Investors in Some States
• Dr. Gary Houchens: Achievement Effects of Scholarship Tax Credits
• The Tax-Credit Scholarship Audit
• Profiting from Educational Choice?
• A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice
• Text of HB 134 and SB 36, Kentucky’s proposed scholarship tax credit bills

*Also published at TeachThought.com

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