Most scholarship organizations reported having little to no trouble soliciting donations from businesses when the tax credits were worth 90 percent of the donations.
Not exact matches
Most common is a tax - credit program that allows businesses or individuals to contribute to
organizations that distribute private - school
scholarships to low - income families.
Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to
organizations that grant
scholarships to students.
Fourth, and
most importantly for the purposes of this report, Florida's program is operated by private, nonprofit
scholarship organizations, while Arizona's state department of education administers the program for that state.
Additionally, donors are free to support the
scholarship organizations which adopt the accountability strategy they believe is
most effective.
In particular, the study found severe accountability problems with both programs,
most notably: they do not serve students in rural areas where there were virtually no private schools or
scholarship organizations (SOs) present; they fund primarily religious schools, which are not required to be accredited or adhere to the same standards for curricula as public schools; they do not require the same testing requirements as public schools, making it impossible to gauge student achievement; and they do not require reporting by schools or SOs.
It is up to the donating businesses and
scholarship organizations rather than politicians to determine how much
scholarships should be to serve the
most students and use dollars efficiently.
While there are some federal
scholarships based on need,
most states, colleges, and other private
organizations provide
scholarships based on merit.
A reputable
scholarship organization does not need your bank account information; it would
most likely send funds directly to your school after verifying your attendance.