By offering the parents of students who choose to attend private schools over public schools a tax credit, Utah legislatures could save the public school system money.

The legislative fiscal analyst’s office has tried to determine tax credits’ effects. It has found they would save Utah schools money, mainly because a tax credit would be less than what is being spent to educate students. Sending a student to private school means one less child to educate, and his remaining money would be spread around to everyone else in public schools.

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