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New York’s teachers’ unions are waging a vicious campaign against a federal program that would make education more affordable for low- and middle-income families.
The reason? They don’t want any competition — even if it comes at zero cost to public schools.
Through newspaper and TV ads and a dedicated website, the unions are spreading misinformation aimed at strong-arming Gov. Kathy Hochul into rejecting a federal tax-credit program she’s promised to join.
Shameless online banners and a full-page ad in Hochul’s hometown Buffalo News blare, “Gov. Hochul, don’t opt in to Trump’s voucher scheme.”
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Danyela Souza Egorov is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. John Ketcham is a legal policy fellow and director of Cities at the Manhattan Institute.