Democrats opening up to vouchers

In the past few years, a slow trickle of black Democrats have embraced tax-credit vouchers, which are funded by corporations in exchange for tax credits. But that year a regular stream of Democrats, including a handful of white Democrats like state Rep. Bill Heller, D-St. Petersburg, crossed by, moving toward a program championed by former Gov. Jeb Bush, even as Republicans were backing absent from Bush’s hard-core emphasis on the

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Original post by Adam Smith

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