Joseph
Back in the 1800 when the Irish who were mostly Roman Catholic, were coming over to NY, the Protestants who were the majority wrote in to the state constitution stronger language to separate church and state. So basically the state constitution has to be changed. The teachers union and other union whose member work in the schools know if school choices was ever available,it would be the end of public schools,their member’s job and their job at the union too. So they fight any type of funding for private education.
Right now the Democrats control both the assembly, the senate (all though some of the Democrats voted for a Republican leadership so technically the Republicans are in charge)and the governor is a Democrat. Nothing is going to be passed by all three bodies without the teacher’s union approval.