by David Safier
In another example of the benefits that can come from good investigative journalism, Fort Wayne's Journal Gazette published an editorial today using the East Valley Trib's articles on Arizona's tuition tax credit abuses as a warning for Indiana.
Indiana just passed a tuition tax credit law. It's only $2.5 million, a drop in the bucket next to us, but of concern to the paper's editorial staff.
The piece calls Arizona "the Wild West of the school choice frontier" and says our tax credit problems are "an example of what to avoid." Not exactly the kind of example we'd like to set here, but consider the legislative makeup of the state.
The editorial goes on to cite examples from the Trib article.
Coincidentally, I'll be referring to a number of excellent articles in the Fort Wayne paper that delve into some of the problems with Imagine Schools there. A bit of reciprocal Arizona-Indiana journalistic love.
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The best thing to come out of Indiana since Dan Quayle (if I remember right, he had some Arizona connections, too.)