Of those studies, 25 found that
school choice programs save money, three reported the programs were revenue neutral and not one found a negative fiscal impact.
Of these, 25 show
school choice programs save money.
The Tax - Credit Scholarship Audit: Do Publicly Funded Private
School Choice Programs Save Money?
Not exact matches
The Play With Purpose campaign is designed to support
Save the Children's early childhood development
programs — Early Steps to
School Success, Literacy / Healthy
Choices and the SummerBoost Initiative — which help children in some of America's most underprivileged areas thrive.
Programs providing
school choice have
saved state and local budgets almost $ 444 million over the past 16 years, a report released by the Indianapolis - based Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation concludes.
They are an improvement on traditional
school -
choice programs because they enhance the freedom of parents to purchase a wide variety of educational products and services and
save for educational expenses in future years, including college.
Aside from the fact that this is a false
choice (competition can actually improve public
school performance and
school choice programs can
save money), the wording is blatantly designed to push respondants toward Approach A.
Thus, any hint of even experimenting with
school choice has been vigorously attacked, a notable example being Florida's
program of exit vouchers, which permitted students stuck in persistently failing
schools to try to find some way to
save themselves through an alternative
school.
In addition to the non-fiscal benefits attached to educational
choice, the
program can relieve pressure for district budgets from rising pension costs (for each one million dollars spent on the
program, I estimated that the state would
save almost half of that amount, while
school districts would
save almost $ 700,000).
Aside from the fact that this is a false
choice (competition can actually improve public
school performance and
school choice programs can
save money), the wording is blatantly designed to push respondents toward Approach A.
The Truth: Every fiscal study ever conducted finds
school choice has either a positive or no visible effect on taxpayers and public
schools, meaning most
programs save money.
The proposed
School Choice Scholarship Act (HB 1607) creates a scholarship tax credit
program that is designed to
save money by reducing state spending more than it reduces tax revenue.
School choice programs can help
save these costs by increasing graduation rates.
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