The SOB is owned by the teachers unions.
I have no problem with ending these programs, which offer “free” private schooling based on income; they are just another socialist freebie while the middle class often is stuck with public schools.
Here in NJ there are similar programs for specific cities, and I have the same objection; on top of these programs, the urban dumps also take funding for their regular public schools from suburbs (which are expected to fund their own public schools as well).
When politicians say we’ll never be socialist, I maintain that in many ways we already are - and this is just one example. Applying for college is another, and our income tax system is also.