This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Monday, January 26, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Nearly three years ago, New Hampshire instituted scholarship tax credits which give low-income parents some help toward

sending their kids to a new school. The program was embattled from the very

beginning but it recently withstood a challenge at the state Supreme Court.

Charles Arlinghouse is president of the Josiah Bartlett Center in New Hampshire.

We spoke earlier this month.

Well, at its most basic level, people wanted to provide options for children who currently have one choice.

They wanted to give them another option.

You know, we all know public schools are good in a lot of cases,

but not necessarily good for everybody.

One size never fits all.

People wanted to figure out a way to take people

who can't afford another option

and give them a way to afford.

So rich people out of school choice, poor people don't.

That's a truism. But they wanted to do it in a way that didn't involve a government

program. So what they wanted to happen were private scholarship organizations to come up and

for them to be funded, not by the government but by private businesses who in

exchange receive a tax credit.

All right, so what was the basic design of the program as it now exists in New Hampshire?

The design is that a business can receive a credit against their business profits tax for donating to a scholarship

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