EITC 2.0: Here’s your $50 million voucher program for the 2012-2013 school year Pennsylvania.

EITC 2.0: Here’s your $50 million voucher program for the 2012-2013 school year Pennsylvania.

Funny thing, when State Rep. Jim Christiana was speaking before the House Education Committee urging passage of the “Opportunity Scholarship” program a month ago he insisted that these were not tax dollars….

Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development

List of Opportunity Scholarship Organizations

http://newpa.com/webfm_send/2439

Effective 07/01/2012 - 06/30/2013

Published 8/3/2012

ACSI Children's Tuition Fund

Association of Christian Schools International

845 Silver Spring Plaza

Suite B

Lancaster, PA  17582

Contact:  David Hegedus

www.acsiglobal.org

From this website: “Bethlehem Catholic High School encourages all businesses to explore this great opportunity to turn state tax dollars into scholarships for our students.”

Eastern Pennsylvania Scholarship Foundation - Diocese of Allentown

P.O. Box F

Allentown, PA  18105

Contact:  Barbara Ann Shotwell

www.allentowndiocese.org

From this website: “A Better Use for Your State Tax Dollars…

Wouldn’t you love to divert your state taxes to a really good cause that would benefit quality, cost effective Catholic schools in your community.”

Scholastic Opportunity Scholarship Fund – Diocese of Pittsburgh

111 Boulevard of the Allies

Pittsburgh, PA  15222

Contact:  Ronald Bowes

www.diopitt.org

If Ron Bowes name sounds familiar to you it might be due to that letter he penned to parochial school parents last year urging them to lobby for vouchers….

PHILLY.COM BLOG by Amy Worden TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Pittsburgh Diocese: Blurring the lines between church and state?

Lobby for school vouchers or lose your financial aid.

That was the essence of a memo to school principals in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh last month.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Pittsburgh-Diocese-Blurring-the-lines-between-church-and-state.html