The Arizona Supreme Court had previously upheld a scholarship tax - credit law, which granted dollar - for - dollar tax credits to taxpayers in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that help
families send their children to the schools of their choice.
The first major push to let American
families send their children to schools of their choice using public funds was led by Catholics seeking to escape discriminatory public schools.
Not exact matches
«We must reward donations
to support public
schools, give tax credits
to teachers who pay for classroom supplies out
of pocket, and ease the financial burden on
families who exercise
choice in
sending their
children to a nonpublic
school.
Laura Lavine (LR):
Families of financial means who are interested in making educational
choices for their
children often, in the city
of Syracuse, choose
to send their
children to non-public
schools, or they leave the city all together.
The result: five «
choice»
schools where Gainesville
families can opt
to send their
children, regardless
of neighborhood boundaries.
Other Detroit
families, around 14 percent, take advantage
of Michigan's interdistrict
choice law that allows them
to send their
children to nearby suburban
schools.
Big - city public
schools are in big - time trouble, and many
families send their
children to their local
school more out
of necessity than
choice.
Big - city public
schools are in big - time trouble, and many
families send their
children to their local
schools more out
of necessity than
choice.
It would enable
families to send their
children to any
school of choice, but also
to purchase additional educational tools — such as textbooks, online courses, and educational therapies —
to have the greatest chance
of success for their
children.
Through the
Choice programs, families are able to send their children to the private school of their choice — at no cost to the f
Choice programs,
families are able
to send their
children to the private
school of their
choice — at no cost to the f
choice — at no cost
to the
family.
«We must reward donations
to support public
schools, give tax credits
to teachers who pay for classroom supplies out
of pocket, and ease the financial burden on
families who exercise
choice in
sending their
children to a nonpublic
school.
These government funded dollars will serve as tuition payments for
families who want
to send their
children to a private
school of choice.
It is worth nothing that 84 percent
of families would have been unable
to send their
children to the
schools of their
choice had it not been for tax - credit scholarships.
Does the OPSB have the capacity
to prevent the system from splitting up
families, and
sending children across town?Is OPSB capable
of making the necessary changes that will make the
choice of a
school less
of a chore for the cities
families?
Families must be allowed
to use their tax - paid dollars
to send their
children to the
schools of their
choice.
This week's Louisiana Supreme Court opinion that struck down a
school choice funding formula finds the usual suspects who want
to prevent
families from using their tax - paid dollars
to send their
children to the
schools of their
choice.
In some neighborhoods,
families have a
choice of sending their
children to high - performing district
schools or affording a private or parochial education; meanwhile, many
families in low - performing districts who can not afford
to pay tuition have no high - quality
choices — or can't gain access
to the handful that do exist.
The president's budget features a $ 1.4 billion
school choice package that includes millions
of dollars in vouchers that low - income
families could use
to send their
children to private, religious
schools.
«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides low income
families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources
to send their
child to the
school of their
choice.»
Meanwhile, the expansion
of school choice in DC encouraged more white and middle - class
families to send their
children to public
schools, and provided an escape route
to some poor
children who would otherwise have attended failing neighborhood
schools.
In Michigan, state funding follows the student, so a local district loses funding if a
family relocates, or chooses
to send their
children to a charter
school or a
school in a neighboring conventional district (permitted under a cross-district «
schools of choice» program).
The program affords low - income
families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources
to send their
child to the
school of their
choice.