Sentences with phrase «first scholarship tax credit program»

Arizona passed the first scholarship tax credit program in 1997.

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Earlier this week, the Show - Me Institute released «Live Free and Learn,» the first analysis of New Hampshire's trailblazing scholarship tax credit program, which is the first in the nation to include homeschoolers.

First, a point of clarification: Florida has a scholarship tax credit (STC) law, not a voucher program.

The Trump administration is considering a first - of - its - kind federal tax credit scholarship program that would channel billions of dollars to families from working - class households to enable their children to attend private schools, including religious 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.

In August, 2016, the First District Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling of the Circuit Court, holding that the plaintiffs suffered no special injury from the tax credit scholarship program, and that the state legislature did not exceed its authority under the constitution.

That includes Colorado and Florida, which gave charters access to local property tax levies; Texas, which gave charters state funding for facilities for the first time; and Illinois, which passed a comprehensive overhaul of its school finance system that brought greater equity to school statewide, and created a new tax credit scholarship program to boot.

The first tax credit scholarship program was created in Arizona in 1997.

However, donors have not yet come close to hitting the cap because of a legislative effort to repeal the tax - credit law and a legal challenge that put the program's future in doubt during the first two years.21 The only scholarship organization operating at the time, the Network for Educational Opportunity (NEO), raised just shy of $ 130,000 in the first year and less than half that in the second year.

But the thing is, first of all, no legal challenge against the tax - credit scholarship program has ever been successful.

According to the Catholic Review, «(Gov. - elect) Hogan called himself «a strong supporter» of the implementation of a tax credit (scholarship program) for businesses that donate to nonprofit organizations that assist lower - income students, and said he would include a measure to create it in his administration's first legislative package.

In 2013, Gov. Haley signed into law the state's first private school choice program — a tax - credit scholarship for students with special needs.

Kentucky State Board of Education Member Dr. Gary Houchens discusses how scholarship tax credit programs, mentioned by President Trump in his first Joint Address to Congress, can expand educational opportunities in Kentucky.

Florida judges» reasoning echoes their counterparts in other states, as well as a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit challenging Arizona's first - in - the - nation tax credit scholarship program.