re: GATOR scholarship bill successfully gets through LA subcommittee

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Switchers generally yield fiscal savings to taxpayers because they are opting out of a higher-cost public school that they otherwise would have attended without the program. By contrast, non-switchers are a pure cost to taxpayers, because, under the program, taxpayers are now paying for an education that the non-switcher student’s household would have otherwise purchased.

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That is EXACTLY the issue. The article also points out that LA has a higher percentage of students already in private schools (i.e non-switchers)

If I'm reading the article correctly, it estimates net cost to the state, on the low end, of $150M and on the high end, $400M, annually.

And while that is a small percntage of the money the state spends each year on total public school spending (and an even smaller percentage of the state budget), it's still $150 - $400 million a year in new spending, which must be paid for with taxes (bleh) or other spending cuts (cool... what are we cutting).