{"id":162621,"date":"2025-08-21T02:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162621\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:06:13","slug":"trump-just-offered-ny-kids-cash-for-schools-will-gov-hochul-turn-it-down-to-please-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162621\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump just offered NY kids cash for schools \u2014 will Gov. Hochul turn it down to please unions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New federal law offers scholarship grants for kids to use at private schools \u2014 if their state\u2019s governor opts to allow it.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t recall Gov. Kathy Hochul or any of her predecessors ever turning down free, no-strings-attached cash \u2014 but giving the thumbs-up here would risk the ire of New York\u2019s powerful teachers unions.<\/p>\n

Will she dare?<\/p>\n

The program has two steps.<\/p>\n

First, it lets taxpayers<\/a> give up to $1,700 to a scholarship-granting nonprofit, trimming their federal tax liability dollar-for-dollar.<\/p>\n

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Then, it lets the charities offer grants to help kids pay for private-school tuition, books or other educational expenses \u2014 as long as the state\u2019s governor \u201cor other entities\/individuals designated by state law\u201d opts in. <\/p>\n

The aid can surely help New York kids to better futures \u2014 by letting them escape low-performing public schools.<\/p>\n

A whopping 40% of New York City kids in grades 3-8 failed this spring\u2019s state tests in math and English<\/a> (though city schools spend $37,000 a year per student, while the average private-school tuition in the state is about $22,000).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why 74% of New York school parents back vouchers<\/a>. And why tens of thousands of kids are on waitlists for seats at public charter schools, which are privately run.<\/p>\n

Alas, teachers unions, which control public schools, fear losing students to schools they don\u2019t control: It means fewer union members, reduced dues collection \u2014 and ever-shrinking teacher-union power. <\/p>\n

So the unions hate the scholarship program, even pushing transparent lies that is somehow steals money away from public schools.<\/p>\n

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In truth, not one dime would come from New York public schools or any state tax revenue at all.<\/p>\n

If Hochul turns down the cash, as schools expert Corey DeAngelis notes<\/a>, she\u2019ll be shooting New York in the foot: letting New York taxpayers\u2019 donations go to help other states\u2019 kids, while local children get bupkis.<\/p>\n

On every other front, Hochul is devoted to maximizing federal grants to New York; along with practically every elected Democrat in the state, she\u2019s been furiously denouncing Medicaid \u201ccuts\u201d that mainly amount to imposing work requirements on able-bodied beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

If the gov blocks Empire State children from getting these scholarships, it\u2019ll be undeniable proof that unions matter to her more than New York\u2019s kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New federal law offers scholarship grants for kids to use at private schools \u2014 if their state\u2019s governor…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,4691,407,5371,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,42505,40852,3060,618,38036,277,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-162621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-editorial","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-kathy-hochul","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-opinion","20":"tag-private-schools","21":"tag-public-schools","22":"tag-schools","23":"tag-taxes","24":"tag-teachers-union","25":"tag-trump","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064313285416038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}