Comments on: Private Money For Public Schools? http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/11/14/private-money-for-public-schools/ Unfair ... Imbalanced Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:38:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: BIN News Editorial Staff http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/11/14/private-money-for-public-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-42056 BIN News Editorial Staff Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:59:24 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=8924#comment-42056 When BIN News sees sic(k) willie and "The Voice" (the actual name is The Voice for Howie Scams Attacking Children) team up to attack educators and children we wonder how much carpetbugger money they're getting for their scams. Howie's scam-monsters know the real issues are poverty, racism, the shameful "minimally adequate" standard, funding issues and the related social ills that silver spoon carpetbuggers just don't want to think about. The good news for S.C. is that vouchers are dead. Just ask Jake. BIN News Editorial Staff Flair and Always Balanced When BIN News sees sic(k) willie and “The Voice” (the actual name is The Voice for Howie Scams Attacking Children) team up to attack educators and children we wonder how much carpetbugger money they’re getting for their scams.

Howie’s scam-monsters know the real issues are poverty, racism, the shameful “minimally adequate” standard, funding issues and the related social ills that silver spoon carpetbuggers just don’t want to think about.

The good news for S.C. is that vouchers are dead. Just ask Jake.

BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Always Balanced

]]> By: baker http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/11/14/private-money-for-public-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-42037 baker Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:51:40 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=8924#comment-42037 Are these scholarships for choice within the public system or scholarships for college? Two very different things. Providing college scholarships to needy or otherwise deserving graduates from the local high school is a fine idea, a good idea. Providing scholarships for K-12 education is a worthwhile idea, too, but, again, it's two different things. By the way, I don't understand the rules on non-profits all that well, but what is stopping a non-profit group from raising money for private school K-12 scholarships? Aren't private schools themselves non-profit? Can't the establish foundations to raise money for scholarships? Don't many of them do this already? Couldn't a church do the same thing? Or a civic club? It appears to me that "The Voice" has hit on a total non-issue here. What I think SCRG (and Will, I guess) wants isn't old-fashioned non-profit status, but property tax credits for private school choice scholarships. The cleverly dubbed Put Parents in Charge legislation, if I recall correctly, called for businesses to get a direct break on taxes they pay to public schools if they instead put money into private school scholarships. That isn't the same thing as simply getting the tax benefits of a non-profit organization, which, again, private schools and the foundations that support them already have anyway. Are these scholarships for choice within the public system or scholarships for college? Two very different things. Providing college scholarships to needy or otherwise deserving graduates from the local high school is a fine idea, a good idea. Providing scholarships for K-12 education is a worthwhile idea, too, but, again, it’s two different things.

By the way, I don’t understand the rules on non-profits all that well, but what is stopping a non-profit group from raising money for private school K-12 scholarships? Aren’t private schools themselves non-profit? Can’t the establish foundations to raise money for scholarships? Don’t many of them do this already? Couldn’t a church do the same thing? Or a civic club?

It appears to me that “The Voice” has hit on a total non-issue here.

What I think SCRG (and Will, I guess) wants isn’t old-fashioned non-profit status, but property tax credits for private school choice scholarships. The cleverly dubbed Put Parents in Charge legislation, if I recall correctly, called for businesses to get a direct break on taxes they pay to public schools if they instead put money into private school scholarships. That isn’t the same thing as simply getting the tax benefits of a non-profit organization, which, again, private schools and the foundations that support them already have anyway.

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