PARKER: Understanding why American kids aren’t learning

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Source Included in the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a dollar-for-dollar tax credit, up to US$1,700, for contributions to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGO) that parents can access and use toward paying for private school tuition and fees and other educational expenses. The provision is constructed such that states must choose to opt in to the program, which begins in January 2027. As of this writing, per the Internal Revenue Service, 28 states have opted in. Of those 28, 25 are red states and three are blue — Colorado, New Hampshire and Virginia. This partisan imbalance is no accident. The nation’s two major teachers’ unions — the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) — are cash machines for the Democratic Party. And the last thing they want is parents having any say in where their child receives their Kindergarten-Grade 12...