Sentences with phrase «as scholarship tax»

Educational choice programs — such as scholarship tax credits or vouchers — empower families with multiple options.

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(The trick was figuring out how the company could maintain the program's tax - deductible status as a nondiscriminatory benefit while still ensuring that the children of the company's owner would qualify for some of the scholarships.)

You can not take the deduction when the expenses were paid using certain tax - free education benefits, such as employer education assistance, tax - free withdrawals from a Coverdell Education Savings Account, US savings bond interest, veterans educational assistance benefits, and certain scholarships.

The Obama administration enacted and / or expanded some tax credits and deductions for education; such as the American Opportunity Credit (formerly called the «Hope Scholarship Credit»), the Lifetime Learning Credit, and the Tuition and Fees deduction.

Money that goes toward tuition, fees, books, and several other basics couldn't be taxed, per the tax code, which also refers to a scholarship given to a university employee — hypothetically, an athlete being paid a salary — as a «qualified tuition reduction» and says it can't be considered income.

Opposition continues in the Assembly even as supporters point to the dozens of lawmakers from both parties who have signed on in support of a version of the legislation, which would provide a tax credit to those who donate to public schools or to a scholarship program that benefits a private or parochial school.

Cuomo and Senate Republicans have been aligned on a number of key issues, including keeping a cap on local property tax increases permanent, as well as a tax credit for donations to public schools and private school scholarship programs.

The compromise would have yoked the Dream Act — which provides tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — to the tax credit for donations to private and parochial school scholarships as well as public school programs.

The commercials come as Cuomo has introduced a repackaged version of the $ 150 million annual tax credit program, which is aimed at spurring donations to both public schools as well as scholarships that benefit private schools.

Astorino has said he supports the growth of charter schools in New York and blames Cuomo for the failure of a tax credit proposal that would incentivize donations to private school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

Cuomo said his plans to extend public tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — the Dream Act — and a plan proposed tax credit offsetting donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds (as well as public schools) were «highly likely» to fall out of talks because the State Senate and Assembly were «dug in» in their respective opposition.

He is also supportive of the education investment tax credit, which is meant to encourage contributions to public schools and scholarship programs that benefit private schools, as well as infrastructure investment.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez today rallied with religious school parents, kids and administrators in East Harlem for the passage of the controversial education investment tax credit — which would incentivize private donations for scholarships at parochial schools and other private schools, as well as public school scholarship funds.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, inserted the Dream Act into his $ 141.6 billion executive budget, and linked it to a new tax credit for donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

In his initial budget proposal, Cuomo linked the Dream Act to the education tax credit, which would incentivize donations to private school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

He has also proposed extending college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — a proposal known as the Dream Act — as well as creating a new tax credit to offset donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds and public schools.

In short, as our lawmakers wrap up their 2014 session, a bill to offer tax credits to New Yorkers who donate to private - school scholarship funds or public - school programs looks dead.

Senate Co-Leader Dean Skelos (R - Long Island) and Sen. Martin Golden (R - Brooklyn) said they would not support expanding a proposed education investment tax credit to help fund scholarships for the college kids of illegal immigrants — a plan some saw as a compromise to the DREAM Act that was voted down in the Senate last week.

In a Nov. 15 letter to Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., a broad array of scientific and engineering societies called on House leaders to drop provisions in the tax bill (H.R. 1) that would eliminate tax credits, known as the Lifetime Learning Credit and the Hope Scholarship Credit, that alleviate the financial strain of higher education by providing a dollar - for - dollar reduction in the income tax liability of eligible students.

While a fraction of Ph.D. candidates and postdocs have been paid through working contracts with their institute, the others have instead received tax - free scholarships known as stipends.

Private school choice programs, such as vouchers, tax - credit scholarships, and education savings accounts, can provide a private school «balance» to strong charter school laws.

A more likely scenario could be an effort to reform the tax code to offer tax credits for donations to organizations that provide scholarships to low - income students — an approach that could serve much the same purpose as school vouchers but would not require the creation of a new direct - spending program.

Other organizations focus on the private school sector and issues such as using taxpayer - funded scholarships, or vouchers, or tuition tax credits to enable children to attend private schools.

With Donald Trump in the White House and long - time school choice advocate Betsy DeVos installed as his education secretary, arguments for and against vouchers and scholarship tax credits are burning white hot.

August 1, 2017 — The 2017 Education Next annual survey of American public opinion on education shows public support for charter schools has dropped, even as opposition to school vouchers and tax credits for private - school scholarships has declined.

Fortunately, as already noted, donations to private school scholarship organizations are not public funding, and so the court's newly invented constraint has no bearing on Florida's education tax credits.

The 2017 Education Next annual survey of American public opinion on education shows public support for charter schools has dropped, even as opposition to school vouchers and tax credits for private - school scholarships has declined.

We examine the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program, which provides private school tuition scholarships to children from low - income families (defined as those making less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level, which is the same eligibility requirement as for a free or reduced - price lunch).

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

Though there are currently more students participating in scholarship tax credit (STC) programs than voucher programs nationwide (about 151,000 to 104,000), the former have not received nearly as much attention as the latter.

An independent study of the fiscal impact of Arizona's STC program in 2009 determined that the state saves between $ 99.8 million and $ 241.5 million as a result of its scholarship tax credit program.

While Florida garners national attention as the site of tax credit scholarships captivating Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, a lesser - known example of choice in education in the state could be turning into a movement.

Many current voucher or tax - credit scholarship programs implement school requirements, such as background checks, nondiscrimination requirements, or testing requirements, that could limit private school participation.

However, unlike with ESAs, tax - credit scholarship recipients in New Hampshire can choose either to use the funds to cover private school tuition or for qualifying homeschooling expenses, such as curricula, textbooks, online courses, or tutoring.

Tax credits for donors to scholarship programs that help low - income students attend private schools garner twice as much support as opposition.

In order to determine the effect of scholarship - induced private school competition on public school performance, we examine whether students in schools that face a greater threat of losing students to private schools as a result of the introduction of tax - credit funded scholarships improve their test scores more than do students in schools that face a less - pronounced threat.

Yesterday, WaPo's Valerie Strauss accused scholarship tax credit (STC) programs of operating as Reverse Robin Hoods, robbing from the poor to give to the rich.

Education savings accounts were more popular than vouchers (without a prompt) but not as popular as tax - credit scholarships, with 56 percent supporting them and 34 percent opposing them.

Contrary to Strauss» assertions, scholarship tax credit programs are not the same as vouchers.

As the survey prompt explained, an STC program «gives tax credits to individuals and businesses if they contribute money to nonprofit organizations that distribute private scholarships» thereby giving parents «the option of sending their child to the school of their choice,» including private religious or secular schools.

At least 10 Arizona organizations that receive tax - credit donations for private school scholarships have failed so far to spend at least 90 percent of their revenues on the scholarships as required by law, according to an analysis by the Arizona Republic.

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As even the Florida School Boards Assocation, an opponent of the amendment, noted at the time, passage or rejection of the amendment would have no direct impact on the tax credit scholarship program.

More striking, the claim that former Gov. Bush rushed to enact a tax credit scholarship after the decision as a legal subterfuge is more than a little time - challenged.

During the eight years (2007 to 2014) that the Education Next (EdNext) poll has been administered to a representative sample of American adults (and, in most of these years, to a representative sample of public school teachers), we have seen only minimal changes from one year to the next on such important issues as charter schools, merit pay, teacher tenure, teachers unions, and tax credits that fund private - school scholarships.

The president and his team may instead seek to amend the tax code to encourage donations to organizations that grant scholarships to low - income students, an approach 16 states use as an alternative to school voucher programs.

In a 2013 survey, only 10 percent of parents of students receiving tax - credit scholarships in Georgia listed «higher standardized test scores» as one of their top five reasons that they chose their child's school.

Florida's teachers union struck out Wednesday in its latest effort to dismantle a tax credit scholarship program as the state's Supreme Court rejected the union's appeal for legal standing to challenge the voucher - like program that finances students from low - performing schools who want to attend private schools.

In some of his first remarks as the new Florida House speaker last year, Rep. Richard Corcoran, R - Land O'Lakes, accused the teachers union of being «downright evil» for its legal challenge to the tax credit scholarship program.