Sentences with phrase «to pay tuition at private schools»

Fourth, Congress could enact Senator Lamar Alexander's proposed «G.I. Bill for Children,» which would give needy K — 12 students grants (in participating states) the equivalent of Pell Grants with which to pay tuition at the private school of their choice.

The proposal — a bill that would provide tax credits for donations to scholarship funds that help children pay tuition at private schools — is similar to programs that are growing in popularity in other states.

For years, she has been telling her story alongside famous advocates for education changes, praising the Florida Tax Credit Scholarships program that paid her tuition at a private school in Jacksonville — and she has worked for the nonprofit Step Up for Students, which helps Florida administer the program.

In the case of the OSP, parents of children in schools that received failing grades in two out of four years were entitled to receive public funds to pay tuition at a private school.

Under the OSA, businesses receive tax credits worth 85 percent of their contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations, which provide scholarships for low - and middle - income children to pay tuition at private schools or out - of - district public schools or to cover eligible homeschooling expenses.

Unless families opt out of traditional public schooling altogether — by applying to a public charter or magnet school, choosing to homeschool, or electing to pay tuition at a private school — they're limited to their child's assigned school.