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Florida will spend 30 million dollars more next year on sending kids to private schools. The state doesn’t actually spend the money, but it allows corporations to make donations to private foundations that provide scholarships to private schools. State Senator Frederica Wilson of Miami told her colleagues that increase was the beginning of the end for public schools.

“School by school. County by county. This entire state will be void of public schools with this corporate tax incentive that we’re selling to parents,” Wilson said.

Sponsors of the legislation say the corporate scholarships actually save the state money since each child gets just 3950 dollars….which is just over half the cost of an average school student.