Testimony before the Senate Committee on
Education and Workforce Development
in Favor of SB 500 and SJR 23
First, cipro pharmacy, Buy cheap cipro, in 1922 Oregon voters approved a Ku Klux Klan supported measure that would have outlawed all private and religious schools. It was a blatantly anti-Catholic effort, buy cipro without prescription. The measure never took effect because the U.S, where to order cipro. Cipro pill, Supreme Court struck it down in 1925, and uttered these famous words:
“The child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, cipro online stores, Best price cipro, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.”
In 2009, cipro no rx required, Get cipro, a survey of 1,200 likely Oregon voters asked a series of questions about K-12 education and school choice, compare cipro prices online. Cheap cipro, 83 percent of those polled had children in school. The key finding was that while 91 percent of Oregon families sent their children to a regular public school – only thirteen percent would do so if the choice where fully theirs, cheapest cipro. Buy cipro without prescription, The rest, 87 percent, would choose private, charter or online schools, or educate their children at home. Cipro online review, Please don’t be fooled by the small percentage of parents who actually exercise school choice today.
Why would 91 percent of children be in regular public schools if only 13 percent of their parents want them there, order cipro from canada. Buy generic cipro online, Because most people can’t afford to pay taxes for public schools and tuition for private schools at the same time. Even though more than $5 billion tax dollars a year go toward educating Oregon’s school-age children, virtually all of that money goes to public school districts, cheap cipro in canada, not parents or students. Send your children where the state wants you to send them and their education is “free.” Make another choice, and you foot the bill yourself. The tax money stays in the public system, even if your child is being educated somewhere else.
So, ask yourselves, are we spending those $5 billion a year to support brick school buildings and the adults who work in them, or are we spending that money to educate children, wherever they can learn best, buy cipro without prescription.
Allowing a $1,000 tax credit is a small, but significant step you can take now to help parents exercise what the Supreme Court said was their right, and high duty — to prepare their children for additional obligations.
Oregonians clearly want to be able to choose where their children go to school. It’s about time that our lawmakers give them that choice by letting the money follow the child.
I urge you to support both SB 500 and SJR 23.
Thank you.
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Here is an ancecdotal example of the impact this could have. My wife is in a medical profession making 37000 a year. I work at a private school making 19000 a year with no benefits and work extra jobs in the summer and weekends making another 8000. Based on an income of 64000 a year, our family of five is considered wealthy and pay nearly 2000 in state income taxes in Oregon. This credit would cut our state tax bill in half. That does not make up the sacrifices of putting our kids in private school, but it helps. Even without the credit we will do this because it has been worth it to us. The tuition at my school is 5200 a year. As a teacher, I get a large reduction in this tuition for my three daughers, but I still pay about 3500 a year. A 1000 credit covers less than 30 percent of this cost, but it certainly will help. Most of the parents at our school make major sacrifices to have their kids here, and a small credit to reduce that slightly would be great for us all and might be the difference for some families to afford private education.