The preliminary plan works like this: Vouchers, euphemistically termed «education savings accounts,» would be created and the state would
deposit public education funds into them for each eligible students.
Not exact matches
About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «
education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from
public schools to receive a
deposit of
public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.
With an account,
public funds are
deposited in a private bank account under parents» control, and families such as the Howards can use the accounts for
education expenses such as
education therapy, private school tuition, textbooks, and college tuition.
Once the
public funds are
deposited into an
education savings account, the
funds are no longer «
public funds» but are instead the private
funds of the individual parent who established the account.
Education savings accounts (ESAs) allow parents to withdraw their children from
public district or charter schools and receive a
deposit of
public funds into government - authorized savings accounts.
For students whose needs are not being met in
public school, the ESA program allows parents to withdraw their child from
public school and have the state
education funds that would have been spent on that child
deposited into an ESA.