In response to yesterday's publication in The New York Times of an article that highlighted certain questionable practices in which a few Georgia student scholarship organizations and their participating private schools are engaged, John Kirtley, Vice-Chairman of American Federation for Children and leader of Florida's Step Up for Students tuition tax credit scholarship organization, posted a blog on the RedefinED website.
In the following commentary, Jim Kelly, Founder and Volunteer General Counsel for the Georgia GOAL Scholarship Program, and Ben Scafidi, GOAL's Education Policy Director, take issue with Mr. Kirtley's use of the New York Times article to advance his argument that the provisions in Florida's tuition tax credit program are the best prescription for a "well-designed" law.
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