Similarly, anyone in a state with a state -
level scholarship tax credit would need to back out any benefit they receive from their state tax code to make sure that the combination of federal and state tax incentives does not exceed the value of the donation.
Not exact matches
Families participating in New Hampshire's pioneering
scholarship tax credit program report near - universal
levels of satisfaction because it enables them to choose the best educational fit for their children.
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.
This simplicity is why
scholarship tax credits should not induce any more federal regulation than the charitable deduction that already encourages such donations at a lower percentage
level.
Seventeen states already have
scholarship tax credits at the state
level.
This report — which focuses on the survey results of parents in Georgia's
tax -
credit scholarship program — reveals why and how parents of all incomes and education
levels choose private schools for their children.
If they refuse to «secularize,» they would be shut out from the flood of philanthropy that could come from a
scholarship tax credit initiative at the federal
level.
There are ideas about a
tax -
credit scholarship program of some kind at the federal
level.
Latinos favor school vouchers, education savings accounts, and
tax -
credit scholarships at higher and more intense
levels than the national average.
As a result, redefineED uses money generated in part by Florida
tax credits to promote charter school and private - school
scholarship interests on a national
level.
Similarly, last year the legislature passed a modest program of school choice
scholarships allowing
tax credits for businesses that donate to organizations that give
scholarships to students of lower
levels of income.
I agree that we have to maintain and work to increase the
tax credit for
scholarships, at all
levels of income.
Read on to learn why those
leveling the arguments against
tax -
credit scholarship programs are misguided in their interpretations of this particular school choice policy.