{"id":54,"date":"2011-04-20T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakeramitchell.com\/2011\/04\/20\/h344-%e2%80%93-credit-where-credit-is-due\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:13:34","slug":"h344-credit-where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/20\/h344-credit-where-credit-is-due\/","title":{"rendered":"H344 \u2013 Credit Where Credit is Due!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Raleigh<\/strong> \u2013 The House has a solid WIN-WIN-WIN in H344.  The winners are our state&#8217;s disabled children, our state&#8217;s disabled treasury, and the State Board of Education (SBE).\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The children win because their parents become eligible to receive a tax credit for getting them education help from private sources.\n<\/li>\n<li>The state treasury wins because the cost of the tax credit is less than the state&#8217;s cost in furnishing that help from public sources.\n<\/li>\n<li>The SBE wins because a part of these savings is transferred to a special education fund under its control.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This bill is that rare piece of legislation that everyone can get behind.  It broadens parental choice in education for our neediest citizens &#8211; low-income children with learning disabilities &#8211; by providing up to $6,000 a year in tuition expenses.  It saves the state money because the cost to serve these children in the public schools exceeds $8,100 per year per child and saves counties nearly $2,000 per year.  Of the state&#8217;s savings, the bill allocates $2,000 to a separate &#8220;Fund for Special Education and Related Services&#8221; under the control of the State Board of Education. The counties save all of their portion.\n<\/p>\n<p>The definitions of learning disabled are all based on the strict professional assessments required by the federal government under its IDEA law and regulations.  A parent cannot merely claim that their child is &#8220;disabled&#8221; and receive the credit.  The child must be assessed in the public school system by special education professionals and have an approved &#8220;individualized education program&#8221; \u2013 IEP.  For low-income families whose state tax is less than the allowed credit, they receive reimbursement from the state for the difference.\n<\/p>\n<p>Georgia and Florida have had similar programs in place for several years and their success is such that nearly 30 states are considering adopting some form of tax credit or &#8220;scholarship&#8221; for special needs students.  Supreme Court rulings have confirmed the constitutionality of these programs.\n<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina would be well advised to pass this law and brings these benefits to its children, its treasury, and its state board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh \u2013 The House has a solid WIN-WIN-WIN in H344. The winners are our state&#8217;s disabled children, our state&#8217;s disabled treasury, and the State Board of Education (SBE). The children win because their parents become eligible to receive a tax credit for getting them education help from private sources. The state treasury wins because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-k-12","category-politics","category-politics-nc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}