Advocates for tax credit, Dream Act plot next moves

Jose Peralta

As reported by Capital:

ALBANY—Advocates for the Dream Act and the education tax credit regrouped on Tuesday after lawmakers said the proposals had been dropped from the state budget, pressuring Governor Andrew Cuomo to reintroduce the policies during ongoing negotiations and strategizing about what to do next if he doesn’t.

A coalition of religious, business and labor groups that supports the tax credit, which would incentivize donations to private school scholarship funds as well as public schools, changed course on an advertising campaign they had begun on Monday to push the credit.

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