re: Georgia follows Alabama- governor to sign landmark school choice legislation

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Rather than a "scholarship", it should be structured as a non refundable tax credit.

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This, I’d even be OK with a reimbursement model where you file to recoup your costs.

If it’s that important Mr or Ms Parent, then prove it and front the money for your kid’s education before expecting the state to step in and save the day.

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First of all, I think you don’t realize how abysmal most of these failing public schools are. It’s virtually impossible for 9/10 of the new private schools to be worse. In reality, the majority of the new charter schools in New Orleans are at least marginally better than the regular public schools they replaced, and half are significantly better.

Also, the really bad ones lose their license (charter) and another school company is brought in. That never happened with regular public schools.

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That's existing schools. People who are interested in promoting a strong education system have already founded schools. New schools will be started by people who otherwise wouldn't be interested but for this money following the students (i.e. profit).

And it takes years for a school to be shut down for providing a poor education. Timeline it's no different than the state taking over a failing public school district.

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Secondly, the new private/charter schools have “choice” as well. If a student is ungovernable and a danger to the other kids, they can actually get expelled.

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Kids can get expelled in public schools too, it happens all the time.

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As far as the Catholic schools and other religious and established private schools, many of them may open their own new schools, but managed by the established schools. They have been a huge improvement over the failing public schools.

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The churches that have an interest in educating kids already have schools. This will be nothing but mega churches viewing this as a new revenue stream