Sound-off on tuition tax credits

As a parent with a child in public education, I support tuition tax credits and would like to have a say as to where my child goes to school. I know what is in my child's best interest. How do we expect to ever improve a system by continuing to do the same thing over and over?

Anne Ayrton

Salt Lake City

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To his detractors, I respectfully submit that Tim Bridgewater's groundwork for his new position includes his own public school education, a graduate degree from a Utah university, a service mission in the developing world and fast-track entrepreneurship inside and outside of Utah.

Gonzalo Palza

Salt Lake City

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The tuition tax credit bill now being considered by the state Legislature leaves the middle class out in the cold. A more equitable solution is to offer the same $3,700 tuition tax credit to all taxpayers.

Richard Griffin

Salt Lake City

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It is difficult to understand how legislators can morally justify taking money from underfunded public schools through vouchers or tuition tax credits. In the words of Benjamin Barber: "Elective schemes rooted in vouchers . . . assure that only the easily educable and well-motivated and parent-supported are in the classroom."

Blair Bateman

Provo

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I am a father of three children, one with special needs. I support tuition tax credits. Wealthy people already have a variety of choices for educating their children. Let's allow the low-income families that option with tuition tax credits.

Jose Vidal

Kearns

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Do we really think that parents who make $20,000 a year can use a tax rebate or voucher to enroll their children in a $25,000 a year private school? We are taxed with the intent the money goes to the public education system. Let's leave it that way.

Judy Allen

Sandy

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