WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:
Kelly is leading legislation to repeal the federal voucher program and keep public dollars in public schools
Today, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ-07) criticized new Treasury Department regulations that advance a national school voucher program created under Trump's big bill, warning that Arizona's experience with universal school vouchers shows the harm done when taxpayer dollars are diverted to private schools without adequate oversight.
The program provides a tax credit of up to $1,700 for donations to eligible scholarship-granting organizations, including organizations supporting private and religious schools, which states h...