Oklahoma’s Catholic Bishops Praise Speaker McCall’s Parental Choice Tax Credit Proposal | Community

Oklahoma City – The two Catholic bishops presently serving in Oklahoma are inspired by a tax credit score proposal they imagine would “enhance instructional alternatives in our state.”

Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall last week unveiled House Bill 2775, named the Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit, which proposes notable increases in state funding for public schools, teacher salaries, and a new state income tax credit of up to $5,000 per year, per child for private school tuition expenses.

An alternative to the much-debated Education Savings Account proposal in the Oklahoma Senate, H.B. 2775 offers tax credits which will be refundable with a pre-bate option.

The Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, Archbishop of Oklahoma City and Most Rev. David Konderla, Bishop of Tulsa, issued the following statement praising the introduction of House Bill 2775:

“This is an historic day for alternative in training and for Oklahoma mother and father. Speaker McCall’s ‘Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit’ package deal boasts new, landmark funding for private and non-private faculties that features a state earnings tax credit score for personal college tuition and different training bills.

“Speaker McCall’s invoice will hold Oklahoma mother and father from being double-taxed and permit them to direct their tax {dollars} to the varsity that finest meets their kids’s instructional wants. We are grateful for daring efforts to enhance instructional alternatives in our state.”

The feedback of the 2 Oklahoma bishop’s got here in a press launch despatched to The City Sentinel and different news organizations by the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma.