“Arizona ruling puts school tax credits in jeopardy”

Howard Fischer writing in the East Valley Tribune:

A new federal appellate court ruling could give the Arizona Education Association and its allies their best shot ever at killing the state’s tax credits to help students attend private and parochial schools . . .

Jeremy Tedesco of the Alliance Defense Fund, representing the Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization, said there is no state coercion of any sort. He said individuals, not the state, decide to which tuition organization they want to donate, and parents decide from which group to seek scholarships.

And Tedesco said any group of parents is free to set up its own scholarship organization, get the same kind of donations and decide at which kind of schools those scholarships can be used.