{"id":9790,"date":"2013-06-19T13:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/?p=9790"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:59:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:59:50","slug":"school-choice-in-south-carolina-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/school-choice-in-south-carolina-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"School Choice in South Carolina budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"schoolchoice1\"<\/a>For the first time in my 9 years of service in the South Carolina Senate I voted for a conference report on an appropriations bill. Here\u2019s why. For the first time in our state\u2019s history, some South Carolina students will have school choice. I sponsored and amendment allowing for South Carolina taxpayers to receive a tax credit matching a contribution to a Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO\u2019s). These SGO\u2019s will offer scholarships to special needs children for up to $10,000 per year. The credit is capped at 60% of their tax liability. The tax credits are capped at $8 million.<\/p>\n

All would agree that special needs children\u2019s education must be individualized and this is very expensive. I would like to extend tax credits for school choice to all children in South Carolina. I am confident that when we hear the success stories from children and their parents, we will get the momentum to expand school choice in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Also, the budget commits $141 million to our dilapidated roads and crumbling bridges. I supported several amendments that would send hundreds of millions of dollars on hand, however, as you saw yesterday, the rinocrat majority would rather in-debt future generations and fund warm and fuzzy programs that show zero results.<\/p>\n

There’s a ton of junk in this budget, as a matter of fact, its been said that “there’s not much punch in the bowl”. For example there’s $24 million going to a program that has shown zero results like First Steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time in my 9 years of service in the South Carolina Senate I voted for a conference report on an appropriations bill. Here\u2019s why. For the first time in our state\u2019s history, some South Carolina students will have school choice. I sponsored and amendment allowing for South Carolina taxpayers to receive a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-2xU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9792,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}