Tax Credits Pass Muster In Arizona
In a legal victory for the private-school-choice movement, the Arizona Supreme Court last week narrowly upheld a $500 state tax credit for contributions to scholarship programs that pay for private school tuition.
The Arizona plan, adopted in 1997, does not include vouchers in the sense of the publicly financed choice programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland. But like those programs, it benefits students attending religious schools.
Turning back arguments that the plan violates federal and state constitutional prohibitions against government aid to religion, the Arizona high court voted 3-2 to...
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