Democratic group pushes blue state governors to opt in to school voucher plan

In a break from Democrats’ typical political position, one Democratic group, Democrats for Education Reform, is pushing the party to embrace school vouchers. 

The push comes after Congress included a provision in President Donald Trump’s budget that will create the first national private school choice program, and Democratic led states are weighing participation. States must opt in to the new voucher program, which allows taxpayers to make donations to nonprofit scholarship-granting organizations, which are then fully credited back to them on their federal taxes. The program will go into effect in 2027, and Democrats for Education Reform is advocating that blue states opt in.

The group’s chief executive, Jorge Elorza, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, argued that vouchers are popular with many working-class black and

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