Kudos to Governor Cuomo!

Kudos to Governor Cuomo!

In his New York Post op-ed, “My agenda for NY opportunity,”  Cuomo expresses the need for the Education Tax Credit.

Here is an excerpt:

The ETC would expand options for families seeking additional choices in the grades before college. The purpose is in part to aid parochial and religious schools. Many nonpublic schools, especially parochial, are facing increased costs and are closing.

I’m the product of Catholic grammar school at a time when most of the teachers were nuns.

Today, there are more lay teachers — who, while usually paid less than public-school teachers, are more expensive than nuns, adding to the pressure on Catholic schools.

Even so, public schools are usually more expensive. The cost of absorbing students from closed parochial and private schools into public schools is picked up by the taxpayer. Closing off this education option increases the burden on a struggling public system without doing anything to improve it.

Read the entire article here.