Samuel Gadegbeku likes to have options. Especially when it comes to his child's education. "We have alternatives and choices in everything else we do in our lives. I think in something as important as our child's education we need to have alternatives. Once size does not fit all," he says. He feels a private education may be the way to go for his ten-year-old, but right now that's not an option considering high tuition costs. New legislation could change that.

The "Put Parents in Charge" Act would provide tax credits to fund scholarships so low and middle income families could send their children to private schools, including religious schools. Pastor Tommy Quick says the plan levels the educational playing field. We asked him why public money should go towards a program like this. "Because public money comes from people with values like mine," he says.

Some say the legislation could cost you more money. People against the plan believe it takes funding away from public schools and the only way to get it back is to cut teachers or raise your taxes. Tom Abbott, school board member in Spartanburg's third district, says the law would cause class sizes to increase and cut his budget by nearly $800,000. "For a school district our size with a little over 3,000 students that's a significant amount of money," he says.

But for parents like Gadegbeku, it's not about dollars and cents, it's about education. "He's doing well," Gadegbeku says of his son, "but I think he can achieve a lot more."