Profiting from Educational Choice?
This article was originally published on Education Next. Last year, more than 250,000 students in 17 states used tax-credit scholarships to attend schools their families chose. Under such policies, taxpayers…
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America’s School Choice Yearbook Superlatives
…donors supporting scholarship-giving nonprofits, that in turn can affect the size of children’s scholarships. For example, if requests for Florida’s tax-credit scholarships suddenly doubled, the size of each scholarship would…
Education Tax Credit Program
Where U.S. Governors Stand on School Choice – 2022
…stands on school choice—specifically private educational choice policies, such as education savings accounts (ESAs), school vouchers and tax-credit scholarships. Keep in mind that past support of or opposition to choice…
Roll Tide — Major Victory for School Choice in Alabama
…8-1 decision, the Alabama Supreme Court followed the precedent set three times by the U.S. Supreme Court—in its review of school choice vouchers, tax-credit scholarships, and individual tax credits—stating that…
America’s School Choice Programs Ranked by Purchasing Power, 2023 Edition
…program whose average funding amount eclipses the funding received by a similar category of students with special needs in a given state. For example, although recipients of Ohio’s Autism Scholarships…
Montana’s Universal Tax-Credit Scholarship Bill Simplified
…scholarship organizations (SSOs). Additionally, the formula utilized to determine scholarship amounts, unfortunately, is convoluted and handcuffs SSOs from granting equitably-funded scholarships to students. Finally, the reporting requirements for schools have…
How the Pandemic Created a “Tsunami” of Choice
…scholarships is a nonprofit, private scholarship-granting organization that gives scholarships to lower income kiddos who would like to attend K-12 private schools but can’t afford to do so. We currently…
BRIEF: School Choice in the States – January 2024
…of the Opportunity Scholarships Act. In 2024, Nebraska policymakers seek to both defend the program from a hostile ballot initiative, as well as expand choice options for Nebraska families. LB…
Rhode Island Democrats and Independents Key to Driving Statewide Education Reform
…percent) than there is support for means-testing (24 percent). Tax-Credit Scholarships Rhode Island has been operating a small-scale tax-credit scholarship program since 2007. Nearly 400 students used scholarships in the…