It's expected DeVos will roll out a Trump administration plan to provide tax credits to corporations and individuals who donate money to groups and schools that
provide school choice scholarships to students and parents.
Not exact matches
The Parental
Choice in Education Act would
provide tax credits for those who donate to private and parochial
schools for purposes of
scholarships, tax credits to parents who pay tuition to private and parochial
schools and tax credits to teachers - in both public and private
schools - who make personal purchases of
school supplies and food to support their underprivileged students.
Private
school choice programs, such as vouchers, tax - credit
scholarships, and education savings accounts, can
provide a private
school «balance» to strong charter
school laws.
The FTC program, the largest private
school choice program in the nation,
provides low - income families a
scholarship that can be used to enroll in participating private
schools.
This study of Washington, DC's, Opportunity
Scholarship Program (OSP)
provides the first experimental evidence on the effect of a publicly funded private
school choice program on college enrollment.
Title I portability proposals should incorporate language similar to that included in the law authorizing the D.C. Opportunity
Scholarship Program, which
provides scholarships to children from low - income families living in the nation's capital to attend a private
school of
choice.
Ohio The Educational
Choice Scholarship Program, enacted in 2005, is a failing
schools voucher that was expanded to
provide over 31,000
scholarships in 2011 - 2012 and 60,000
scholarships in 2012 - 2013.
Douglas County, Colorado The
Choice Scholarship Program was created by the Douglas County Board of Education to
provide school vouchers for students living in Douglas County.
A majority of Americans support
school choice, including the idea of
providing tax - funded
scholarships for poor parents to send their children to public, private, or parochial
schools, according to a poll released last week.
Most controversially,
school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private
schools or
provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant
scholarships to students.
We need to have a broader conversation about these topics, and we need to make sure that we are sending the message that the education we
provide is worth every penny — no matter whether it's funded by tuition,
scholarships,
school choice or local philanthropy.
The study
provides evidence, however, that the
Choice Scholarship Program is not enrolling high - performing students compared to public
school peers, aka «cream skimming.»
HB1 — The Louisiana
Scholarship Program was fully funded with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate,
providing 8,700 students the opportunity to escape failing and underperforming public
schools to attend the private
school of their parents»
choice for the 2014 - 15
school year.
1)
Scholarships — «Under Corbett's plan, scholarships will be provided to eligible students who will then choose to attend the public or non-public school of their ch
Scholarships — «Under Corbett's plan,
scholarships will be provided to eligible students who will then choose to attend the public or non-public school of their ch
scholarships will be
provided to eligible students who will then choose to attend the public or non-public
school of their
choice.»
The Patriot - News reported that [Corbett] «aims to see Pennsylvania join the growing list of states that offer taxpayer - funded vouchers to parents to send their children to a
school of their
choice... The governor also wants to expand the state's tax credits program that
provides for business - funded private
school scholarships.»
Scholarship Organizations
provide scholarships to children to attend the
schools of their
choice.
AFC believes a federal tax credit to inspire charitable giving by corporations and individuals to state non-profits who
provide scholarships for eligible children to attend a
school of their parents»
choice would have the greatest impact for children in need.
The plan vastly expands
school choice opportunities in PA by creating an Opportunity
Scholarship Program, which would
provide tuition assistance for eligible students to attend a public or non-public
school of their
choice.
Voucher: In the
school choice context, a program that
provides tuition funding to a family that allows them to choose a private
school for their children — a publicly funded
scholarship for K - 12 students.
Clarion Ledger Time to expand education
scholarship program to
provide school choice for all students
«But in order to ensure another leg of the
school choice stool is complete and to continue ensuring working families have even more options — regardless of their income or zip code — we need to enact Senate Bill 1 and
provide opportunity
scholarships to our families now.
REACH remains committed to pursuing passage of Senate Bill 1, which
provides opportunity
scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private
school choice.
61 % of those surveyed agree with an Arizona law that
provides tax credit
scholarships to special education students in traditional public
schools, allowing them to attend the public or private
school of their
choice.
State law (Act 55) specifies that annually every public
school, including charter
schools, and each private
school participating in a
Choice program is to
provide parents with a copy of their
school report card and a list of their educational options, including the Special Needs
Scholarship Program.
Q: On some specific legislation, the Opportunity
Scholarship Act would
provide vouchers for low - income students to attend
schools of their
choice, public or private.
On his website, the governor notes his backing of «a
school choice scholarship funded through business tax incentives that will
provide lower income students with more freedom to attend private and religious
schools.»
The Louisiana
Scholarship Program
provides low - income parents with the financial resources to send their child to the
school of their
choice.
We urge
school choice advocates to work with Congress and the Administration to pass a federal tax credit to encourage charitable giving to state non-profits who will
provide scholarships for eligible children to attend the
school of their parents»
choice.»
Georgia's tax - credit
scholarship program enacted eight years ago, which is currently
providing scholarships to almost 13,000 children in Georgia to attend the private
school of their parent's
choice, is under assault.
The Louisiana Tax Credit Program is a nonrefundable tax credit for taxpayer donations that
provide scholarships to students for attendance at a qualified nonpublic
school of their parent's
choice.
President Donald Trump's budget proposal to
provide federal tax money for private -
school scholarships is getting pushback from an unconventional source: groups known for promoting
school -
choice initiatives.
Tax - credit
scholarships allow individuals and businesses to reduce their state tax liability by making a private donation to a nonprofit organization that
provides students
scholarships to attend private
schools of their
choice.
As the Washington Post wrote in a recent editorial, «The
scholarships provide a lifeline to low - income and underserved families, giving them the
school choice that more affluent families take as a given.»
We have
provided briefings, informational forums and other information and support for the goals of the New Jersey Opportunity
Scholarship Act, which would help students in our most disadvantaged districts with
scholarships to choose superior
schools, and have supported inter-district
school choice, charter and virtual
schools, online supplemental courses, education savings accounts and other options
«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.»
The Louisiana
Scholarship Program is designed to
provide students with additional opportunities to attend the
school of their
choice.
The publicly funded Louisiana
Scholarship Program is designed to
provide students with additional opportunities to attend the
school of their
choice.
Florida
provides a variety of
school choice options, including four
scholarship programs.
Our mission is to
provide children of low - income families with
scholarships to private
schools in grades K - 12, and to advocate for expanded
school choice.
A variety of
school choice options exist today including tuition vouchers, private
scholarship programs, and charter
schools, which
provide an alternative to the cookie - cutter district
school model.
With the 2013 passage of the Opportunity
Scholarship Program by the North Carolina General Assembly, North Carolina joined the growing list of states
providing low - income families with greater
school choice.
School choice generally refers to vouchers for low - income children to attend private
schools (
scholarships); tax credits for contributions to private
schools that
provide assistance to low - income children; or charter
schools, which are public
schools that are managed privately.
Scholarship tax credit programs provide state tax credits to businesses and individuals that donate money to scholarship funds that help children attend the private schools of their parents&raq
Scholarship tax credit programs
provide state tax credits to businesses and individuals that donate money to
scholarship funds that help children attend the private schools of their parents&raq
scholarship funds that help children attend the private
schools of their parents»
choice.
The state's
Choice Scholarship program
provides publicly funded vouchers to families meeting certain income requirements to send children to private
schools.
The Louisiana
Scholarship Program
provides parents with the financial resources to send their child to the
school of their
choice.
In 2011, Indiana passed a
school choice bill which currently allows 9,300 kids from low and middle income families with household income below 150 percent of school lunch eligibility to receive vouchers equal to between 50 and 90 percent of state per - pupil education funding to use at any of 289 schools — some of which provide religious education — that participate in the Choice Scholarship Pr
choice bill which currently allows 9,300 kids from low and middle income families with household income below 150 percent of
school lunch eligibility to receive vouchers equal to between 50 and 90 percent of state per - pupil education funding to use at any of 289
schools — some of which
provide religious education — that participate in the
Choice Scholarship Pr
Choice Scholarship Program.
Non-profit organizations that
provide scholarships to children in Pennsylvania to attend the
school of their
choice — public, non-public or religious.