School-Choice Setbacks in Illinois and Texas

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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About 10,000 low-income Illinois students get scholarships through a program called Invest in Kids, but it's now set to sunset after inaction by Democrats in the Legislature, as well as Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Meantime, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott keeps pressing state lawmakers there to pass his bill to create universal Education Savings Accounts, or ESAs, as rural Republicans balk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:27.0	The Texas House gets set for a big vote on Governor Greg Abbott's
0:33.0	school choice proposal as Democrats in Illinois
0:36.6	failed to save a scholarship program there
0:39.3	for low-income students.
0:41.5	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:45.0	We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Colin Levy and columnist Kim Strassal.
0:52.3	Let's start in Illinois where the state legislature last week failed to reauthorize an Invest in Kids program, a scholarship program.
1:01.0	And Colin, my understanding is that that's now going to sunset.
1:04.0	Can you give listeners a reminder of what the Invest in Kids program is, how it works,
1:09.0	and how this political debate played out there in Illinois?
1:12.0	Sure, this is political debate played out there in Illinois.
1:12.6	Sure, this is really a tragedy, Kyle, what's happened here?
1:16.0	And the Invest in Kids Scholarship Program was started by Governor Bruce Rowner
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