Educating millions of youngsters is a mammoth undertaking, and our public schools must have support to do it right. Unfortunately, the Trump-Pence administration isn’t interested in helping public schools.

Discriminatory policies are common at religious schools. Students can be denied admission or be expelled for being LGBTQ (or having same-sex parents), for being the “wrong” religion or for failing to meet certain religious requirements. Youngsters can find the door to these schools slammed in their faces because of how they live and, indeed, who they are.

This new voucher program would provide a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit for individuals and businesses who donate to organizations that provide vouchers for students to attend private schools. This legislation would redirect $10 billion of taxpayer dollars each year away from the public treasury where it could be used to fund public schools, and instead fund private, religious schools.