{"id":9087,"date":"2011-03-31T00:36:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2011-03-31T00:36:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:36:39","slug":"indiana-gop-poised-to-pass-sweeping-school-voucher-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9087\/indiana-gop-poised-to-pass-sweeping-school-voucher-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana GOP Poised to Pass Sweeping School Voucher Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Republicans are expected to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted2.ap.org\/APDEFAULT\/signup\/Article_2011-03-29-US-Indiana-School-Vouchers\/id-3abbc285ca64476b808af7dc5ddd500c\" target=\"_blank\">major school choice legislation<\/a> in the next few days, allowing a family of four with incomes as high as $60,000 the opportunity to spend their tax dollars on the kind of education they want.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted2.ap.org\/APDEFAULT\/signup\/Article_2011-03-29-US-Indiana-School-Vouchers\/id-3abbc285ca64476b808af7dc5ddd500c\" target=\"_blank\">a perfect summary<\/a> of the argument for public school vouchers from one Hoosier supporter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We fund education for a reason \u2014 to give individual children the skills they need to compete in life,&#8221; said Luke Messer, former executive director of the Indiana Republican Party who now heads School Choice Indiana. &#8220;If the money follows the child, parents ought to have the right to put their child in whatever opportunity they think would best serve their family.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vouchers put power into the hands of those most affected by choices about schools: families of students.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope Indiana Republicans go to the mat for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Republicans are expected to pass major school choice legislation in the next few days, allowing a family of four with incomes as high as $60,000 the opportunity to spend their tax dollars on the kind of education they want. Here\u2019s a perfect summary of the argument for public school vouchers from one Hoosier supporter: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[376,781,172,71,1094,1539],"class_list":["post-9087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-education-reform","tag-indiana","tag-school-choice","tag-taxes","tag-teachers-unions","tag-voucher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9088,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions\/9088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}