PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona House committee has voted to allow bigger tax breaks for private school scholarship donations.
The House Ways and Means committee adopted the measure on a 4-3 party-line vote Monday. The bill also requires new accountability requirements for the nonprofit organizations that administer private school scholarship programs.
The move is the first step in adopting some of the changes recommended in December by a special House committee that was convened following newspaper investigations that found minimal oversight of the program.
Committee Democrats opposed the bill, saying too many scholarships go to wealthy parents who would send their children to private school anyway.
Republicans say the program has helped expand education options for parents.
