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Pete Hoekstra: “I think this is what I really want to reinforce because I think it is also a model that I would hope that we would…”

On the recordMarch 18, 2004
I think this is what I really want to reinforce because I think it is also a model that I would hope that we would consider here in Washington; and more importantly, I am hoping that it is a model that we will consider in the State of Michigan for putting more money into our public schools. The tax credit that you designed in Arizona not only empowers scholarship organizations to give scholarships to low-income students to go to private and parochial schools, but it also provides a mechanism of funneling more money into our local public schools in Arizona.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing education funding models and tax credits for public schools.

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