Whitmer vetoes scholarship plan critics liken to vouchers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Children enrolled in public schools could have gotten a maximum of $500 a year, or $1,100 if they were disabled.
58% : "Simply put, our schools cannot provide the high-quality education our kids deserve if we turn private schools into tax shelters for the wealthy," she wrote to lawmakers, adding that she has worked to reverse disinvestment in public education.
50% : Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday vetoed Republican-backed bills that would have created scholarship accounts for K-12 students to pay for educational expenses, including private school and tutoring, and given tax credits to people and corporations that donate to the program.
48% : Students attending private schools could have gotten up to 90% of Michigan's minimum base per-pupil funding annually, which equates to $7,830 currently.
33% : Democratic legislators and teachers unions likened the proposal to vouchers and said it would be unconstitutional, citing Michigan's ban on providing public assistance to nonpublic schools.

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