The Cato Institute has produced a short film, «Live Free and Learn,» which explains how New Hampshire's
scholarship tax credit program came about and features some of the families benefiting from the program.
Not exact matches
The commercials
come as Cuomo has introduced a repackaged version of the $ 150 million annual
tax credit program, which is aimed at spurring donations to both public schools as well as
scholarships that benefit private schools.
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.
The
program, administered by Step Up For Students, provides
tax credit scholarships to students in K - 12 who
come from low - income families.
In the Empire State, nearly $ 40 million would go directly back to public school support (after school
programming, instructional materials, supplies, etc.) more than $ 50 million would fund
scholarships for low - income students, and $ 70 million more would
come back to families in the form of
tax credits that allow them to send kids to the school of their choosing.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that 124 students were expected to enroll for the
coming school year through the
Tax Credit and McKay
scholarship programs.
For the
coming school term, it appears as though a federal
tax credit scholarship program included in a
tax - reform package may be the mechanism used to fund school choice.
The
scholarship money will
come through the Educational Improvement
Tax Credit program.