Norton Rainey, executive director of the Alliance for Choice in Education, a Denver non-profit that provides K-12 scholarships to low-income kids (www.acescholarships.org), writes in The Denver Post:

“Last week the House Committee on Finance killed HB 10-1296, sponsored by Representative Spencer Swalm and Senator Josh Penry. It was a ho-hum moment. No big surprise. The bill was defeated along a Party line vote 6-5 and it was the expected outcome. But it is worth taking a closer look at what this legislation would have accomplished before dismissing it out of hand. HB 1296 would have provided low-income families with an annual $1,000 tax credit for enrolling their child in a private school. The bill would also have provided a grant of $1,000 to any public school that loses a student to a private school as a consequence of the tax credit.” READ MORE HERE