re: GATOR scholarship bill successfully gets through LA subcommittee

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So, if you choose to send your child to public school, does that school district get cut a check from the account automatically?

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From what I have read, attendance at a public school makes that child ineligible for this account.

A kid attenidng public results in no difference from what is happening today, where the state sends the school an amount of money per public school student (the MFP)

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"Creates an opportunity for the best and highest rated public school districts in
Louisiana to stem the continued excess migration into those top school districts.
Excessive migration into top rated public school districts create school overcrowding
and overdevelop of homes that inevitably result in traffic congestion, increased
drainage problems, and the flooding of homes and businesses."

I didn't grow up in Louisiana; I'm from the MS Gulf Coast and had a good k-12 public school system. Is this bill trying to funnel more kids into private or charter schools instead of families trying to live in good public school districts?

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Whoa. Yeah, that's exactly what it seems like.

Overcrowding CAN be an issue in successful high growth districts, but there are PLENTY of ways to deal with that. One of them is to build new schools paid for with the property tax dollars from all those new homes.

Also, for this statement to really be "true" it would need to be coming from the public school leaders. However, the public school leaders are blasting this plan.