{"id":335675,"date":"2026-09-02T05:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335675\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T05:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:58:13","slug":"nysut-weighs-in-on-federal-tax-credit-and-ai-in-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335675\/","title":{"rendered":"NYSUT weighs in on federal tax credit and AI in classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/media\/document\/education-freedom-tax-credit-fact-sheet-113147.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Education Freedom Tax Credit<\/a> is a federal voucher program that states may opt-into.<\/p>\n<p>It works like this: Taxpayers who want to offset their federal tax burden by $1,700 can donate that money to a Scholarship Granting Organization. In turn, the organization will choose to donate that money to qualified families for use to pay for private or religious school tuition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Public school parents may also use the funds for things like tutoring or afterschool enrichment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Final regulations are expected this month, and that\u2019s when Gov. Kathy Hochul will make a final decision about whether New York will participate in the program. Hochul has already said she is leaning toward opting in.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But New York State United Teachers, the state\u2019s largest teachers&#8217; union, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysut.org\/news\/2026\/july\/media-release-coalition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">against the idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Melinda Person, president of NYSUT, explains her criticisms of the tax credit and discusses the role of artificial intelligence in the classroom with Capital Tonight\u2019s Susan Arbetter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788328693_582_nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s Education Freedom Tax Credit is a federal voucher program that states may opt-into. It works&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,204,202,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,108,87,201,200],"class_list":["post-335675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-politics","tag-susan-arbetter","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}