Sentences with phrase «over scholarship tax»

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Republicans said nothing during the debate over the «big ugly,» which also included about $ 25.8 billion in funding for public schools, revived the 421 - a housing subsidy program, creates a new scholarship program for public colleges, included billions for water infrastructure, spurs municipal service consolidation and extended the state's expiring millionaires tax for two years.

In May 2014, a study by Andrew Catt of the Friedman Foundation found that scholarship tax - credit laws generally imposed very few additional regulations on schools when first enacted and over time.

1 Over the past eight years, the program has proven enormously popular: With more than 13,000 students, it is the sixth largest tax - credit scholarship program in the country.2 Twenty - nine scholarship organizations accept private, tax - credit - eligible donations to offer scholarships to those students.3

Launched in 2008, Georgia's scholarship tax credit program will help over 13,000 children get the best education for their needs at secular and religious private schools this year.

Over time, laws changed to provide scholarships, tax credits, and other vehicles that tied resources to a family's preferences for schooling.

Last week, there was something of a kerfuffle over the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's proposal to impose new regulations on voucher and tax - credit scholarship programs.

States conceivably could be given authority over details of a scholarship tax credit — for example, designating which nonprofits are eligible to serve as scholarship - granting organizations, and which rules they and participating schools would need to follow.

The new $ 50 million OSTC program builds on over a decade of EITC success, using the same tax credit funding mechanism, where business contributions fund scholarships available to children from low and middle income families who reside in low - achieving school areas.

«That is why we are spending more than # 1.3 bn over this Parliament to help attract the brightest and best into the profession, including offering generous tax - free bursaries and scholarships in key subjects and through our teacher recruitment campaign: Your Future: Their Future.»

EdChoice Kentucky will be releasing scholarship tax credit explainers over the next few weeks.

Over half the states have adopted school choice policies, including 18 states that have Scholarship Tax Credit programs.

There is over $ 1.9 billion in dedicated funding available for school voucher and scholarship tax credit programs in 2015 - 16.

In that time span, the number of students attending a private school with a voucher or tax - credit scholarship has grown from just under 100,000 to over 300,000.

The NHSC's ruling today takes some wind out of the sails of the Florida School Boards Association (FSBA), which is inexplicably suing the Sunshine State over its more - than - decade - old scholarship tax credit law, in a complaint that mirrors the legal reasoning of the NH petitioners.

The Florida PTA is dropping out of the Florida Education Association's lawsuit over the 15 - year - old program, in which corporations save on their tax bills by funding the scholarships.

Florida has channeled billions of taxpayer dollars into scholarships for poor children to attend private schools over the past 15 years, using tax credits to build a laboratory for school choice that the Trump administration holds up as a model for the nation.

ALEC's annual meeting is taking place in Chicago this week, just as Common Cause and CMD have filed a complaint to the IRS over ALEC's corporate - funded «Scholarships» for state legislators — ALEC is a tax exempt non-profit despite their mission of facilitating an exchange of company - crafted laws with state legislators in closed - door meetings.