Students can receive a scholarship worth up to $ 8,000 to cover
the costs of private school tuition, fees, and transportation if it is provided by the private school.
The report examines tax policies in 20 states that have circumvented public opposition or even constitutional obstacles to publicly funded private school vouchers by using their tax codes to either encourage donations to private school scholarship funds, also known as neovouchers or backdoor vouchers or to offset
the cost of private school tuition.
Most Vouchers Do Not Cover
the Cost of Private School Tuition — Sixty - eight percent of high schools and 62 % of K - 8 schools charged tuition rates above those of the cap on each student's voucher.
Critics point to the fact that this amount of money doesn't cover
the cost of private school tuition and those who take advantage of it will be already economically positioned to attend private school, with our without the voucher.
However, the $ 250 credit is very small compared to
the costs of private school tuition and covers only 25 percent of expenditures.
States using «neovouchers» — or backdoor vouchers — to encourage donations to private school scholarship funds or to offset
the costs of private school tuitions illegally allow wealthy taxpayers to turn a profit when making charitable contributions to private schools, according to a new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
States using neovouchers - or backdoor vouchers - to encourage donations to private school scholarship funds or to offset
the costs of private school tuitions illegally allow wealthy taxpayers to turn a profit when making charitable contributions to private schools,...
Education Week reported: «Over the objections of teachers» unions and many Democrats, Louisiana's Republican governor and GOP - controlled legislature have crafted one of the most exhaustive education overhauls of any state in the country, through measures that will dramatically expand families» access to public money to cover
the costs of both private school tuition and individual courses offered by a menu of providers.»
The voucher amount equals the lesser of state and local spending per pupil or
the cost of private school tuition.
That money would then be offered up as vouchers to families to offset
the cost of private school tuition.
The judge determined there was no agreement between the parents and concluded the court could not include
the cost of private school tuition in the child support calculation.
The judge, therefore, did not cover
the cost of private school tuition in Romine's monthly child support obligation.