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The 2016 School Choice Yearbook Superlatives

2015 School Choice Superlatives

scholarships. For example, if requests for Florida’s tax-credit scholarships suddenly doubled, the size of each scholarship would be cut in half. That’s because there’s a capped amount of available funds…

BRIEF: School Choice in the States April 2014

school choice in the states

…tax credit for donations to private and religious schools. It is the Friedman Foundation’s hope that money could be used for scholarships for students. Please see our previous coverage of…

Surveying the Common Core Battleground

…67 percent), ESAs (60 percent and 53 percent), and tax-credit scholarships (72 percent and 57 percent). When looking at the groups’ margins for those types of school choice policies, it…

Student Stories: How My School Choice Inspired Me to Teach

Lennon Audrain

…that provide tax-credit scholarships—Catholic Education Arizona (CEA) and the Brophy Community Foundation (BCF)—I have been able to attend schools that otherwise, because of my family’s financial obstacles, would not have…

BRIEF: School Choice in the States October 2013

school choice in the states

Scholarships for Students with Disabilities program is unconstitutional under the state’s Blaine amendment. The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a prior lawsuit challenging the program on procedural grounds. Rhode Island –…

Transcending Partisan Views on School Choice

…range of school options. 4. Iowa voters are more likely to favor—rather than oppose—school choice reforms like education savings accounts (ESAs), school vouchers, tax-credit scholarships, and charter schools. Mechanisms like…