The Big, Terrible Bill included lots not to like, including the creation of a federal school voucher program.
While conservatives tend to be proponents of state-level voucher schemes, some are raising concerns over the Trump scheme:
Though attractive on the surface, this generous credit effectively removes the burden of K-12 funding from the state and transfers it to private SGOs. This undermines states like North Carolina, who did the difficult work of reforming their education funding model to ensure dollars follow the student.
As we saw in the last administration, given enough leverage, the federal government will always try to turn funding into a cudgel to promote its social policy goals.
