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Eric Brakey on Education |
Q: Do you support or oppose allowing public education funds to follow students to schools or programs of their family's choice (school choice)?
Eric Brakey: Support "Competition will improve our schools by making them more responsive to the expectations of parents."
Currently, parents who choose to pursue alternative education paths are punished by being forced to pay twice for their child's education: once through their taxes, and again through the costs of private school tuition or homeschooling expenses. Eric Brakey will pursue legislation to give a tax credit for education expenses to parents who opt-out of the public education system.
Parents who choose an alternative education path for their children should not be punished with added out-of-pocket expenses when they are already paying for a public school education. Eric Brakey will work to solve this problem.